Like, there is very little possibility that the Turkish military, who throws coups regularly, could have screwed this up this badly. The way you throw a coup is pretty straightforward, first you grab the leader, then shut down the media, then put the leader on the media, humiliated.
There have been multiple coups around the world which were performed whilst the leader was away. You do not need to capture the elader to perform the coup, you only need to wrest control from the forces/officials in the cities.
The coup told people to go home, while tayyip told his people to go on the street. So the coup supporters were at home, while the tayyip supporters were out on the streets. This is exactly the opposite situation a coup would want.
Actually that's not quite right.
Anyone who's performing a coup with the people in mind, would want as many people off the streets as possible. Supporters of any kind out in the streets leads to protests, fights, riots, and a lot of confusion. The military wanted people to stay inside for their safety, and to make sure nobody got tangled up in gunfights. Tayyip wanted people out on the streets to cause chaos and confusion for the military, as well as bring them down. Almost all the videos, except one, that I watched.. Well they all showed citizens attacking the military, and the military trying their hardest not to retaliate. In fact, the military never shot at civilians directly on purpose, unless attacked first. At least, to my knowledge.
I only saw one video in which a soldier discharged his weapon at civilians, and it was because they were beating the shit out of him on top of his APC, and he tried to use his sidearm, in obvious self-defence.
The head of the military never came out and supported the coup. None of the top military officials did. No one even announced that they were in charge. In short, the whole thing could have been better arranged for tayyip himself, who now looks like a hero of the people.
Who the coup was supported by doesn't and would not matter. I have full faith that the coup was legitimate, although not well backed and executed. I also have full faith that Tayyip is abusing this as hard as he can to purge the military of anyone who dislikes his regime.
Also note that, ONLY TRT was blocked by the coup, TRT is basically the main turkish channel. If you want a coup to succeed you also have to shut down all media, now tayyip could communicate with his supporters to go outside and resist. Even I could see when he called people out, after that moment i knew that it was a hoax coup.
The people weren't trying to keep the civilians in the dark. They wanted people to know what was happening, because they more than likely thought that they had more support than they actually did.
