ANKARA/BRUSSELS ¨C It was a strangely 20th century coup, defeated by 21st century technology and people power.
When a self-styled military ¡°Peace Council¡± tried to topple Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his increasingly authoritarian government on Friday night, the rebel generals and colonels seemed to be fighting the last war.
¡°This coup was obviously planned quite well but using a playbook from the 1970s,¡± said Gareth Jenkins, a researcher and writer on military affairs based in Istanbul.
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