Reasons for Turkey Coup

• Turkey's once-powerful military has long considered itself the guardian of the secular state founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in 1923.
• Erdogan's critics have long accused him of undermining Turkey's secular roots and of sliding into authoritarianism, but the president was believed to have won control of the military after purging elements who opposed him.
• He brought military appointments under civilian control and carried out proceedings against various military personnel who were anti to him
• He limited the jurisdiction of military court
• He is attempting to rewrite the constitution to give more powers to himself
• He backed IS in Syria, IS has recently attacked Turkey itself
• He is against Kurdish people who are helping fight IS
• Though there are some sections of people who are against Erdogan, they don’t want military to solve their problems.
• People afraid of the military government
• Govt blamed coup on followers of Islamist scholar and Erdogan critic Fethullah Gulen