How does the military lose in a coup attempt ask a bunch of Turkey’s? You have a strong reason for the need of such action, the means to accomplish such a goal and you still lose how could this occur? I know I’m being a General after the fact but this is how it should have been done (below) in Turkey.
(1)- Locate the prison that the opposition is being held in.
(2)-Have a top personality arrested for not going along with the further suppression of the opposition.
(3) Try to determine your main opposition in the military units.
(4) Free the opposition voices and take over the media to have them speak out.
(5) Use force to hold back military units opposed to your actions.
(6) Move Erdogan and his entire administration out of the country and to an area without any way to communicate to Turkey.
(7) Promise free and fair elections within 60 days of coup but with only parties that support a secular pluralistic state.