According to Jerry Pournelle, who's among other things a political scientist (academic and practicing, at least in times past), Turkey had a to his knowledge unique system where they Army "kept a lid" on thing by coming out of their barracks when the civilians got out of hand, hanging the appropriate ones, and then the unique thing, going back into their barracks. Erdogan obviously included dismantling/defanging the Army as he dismantled the rest of what Atatürk wrought.
Which is a great shame. Per David "Spengler" Goldman, it's the only Muslim Middle Eastern country with world class universities (I believe he's defining that region as from Iran to the west), and otherwise had great potential.
Ah, another note from Goldman, both Turkey and Iran are facing core population demographic collapses, e.g. soon enough Kurds will be a majority in the former. They are acutely and publicly aware they have about one generation to do something about this....
Which is a great shame. Per David "Spengler" Goldman, it's the only Muslim Middle Eastern country with world class universities (I believe he's defining that region as from Iran to the west), and otherwise had great potential.
Ah, another note from Goldman, both Turkey and Iran are facing core population demographic collapses, e.g. soon enough Kurds will be a majority in the former. They are acutely and publicly aware they have about one generation to do something about this....