An old-school coup fails to topple Turkey’s powerful president

In the age of the smartphone, the coup attempt in Turkey perhaps didn't stand a chance. As speculation swirled on social media on Friday night, a group of mutinous troops took over the state-run TRT station — not a particularly popular network — and forced an anchor to read on air a statement drafted by them about the […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/16/an-old-school-coup-fails-to-topple-turkeys-powerful-president/