.@nateschenkkan Irrational fawning over AKP for a decade has been replaced by utter inability to understand Turkey's multifaceted dynamics.
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Replying to @zeynep
Size of current purges in Turkey in judiciary & military and size of forces mobilized for coup don't necessarily correlate. No large force.
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Replying to @zeynep
Even the soldiers sent to TV stations were small, easily overwhelmed. Turkey has one of the largest armies in the world. They were not out.
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Replying to @zeynep
Biggest misunderstandings of Turkey coup: missing its relatively small size—aircraft had large effects—and missing govt use of social media.
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Replying to @zeynep
Im curious if you think people still would have come out on the street absent a call from erdogan/social media
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Replying to @NicholasDanfort
Erdogan being live on TV was big. The rest was heavily social media dependent too. Could it happen? yes but much harder.
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Replying to @zeynep
interesting. Yeah at best it seems people would have come out more gradually
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Wrote up parts of the story. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/opinion/how-the-internet-saved-turkeys-internet-hating-president.html …
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