>Fair enough. Re arrest lists drawn up in advance: not much in English-speaking MSM but try this: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/16/asia/ivan-watson-turkey-coup/index.html ... gist is that after a long history of Turkish military coups, Erdogan had re-established democratic civilian control over the Military... and then this.
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>Not in the article but worth reflecting that after the last (successful) 1980 military coup in Turkey, 500,000 people were arrested, hundreds died in prison and 25 were executed. Erdogan's 6,000 arrests probably should be seen in context.

1980 was terrible. They affected 30 years of our lives.