>>>Can't remember where, but I read a piece last week talking about the Army as the keeper of Ataturk's vision.
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>I read that also. While I can imagine him exhorting the armed forces to protect the secular state almost a century ago, I'm not sure it's a viable mechanism in 2016 to stage a coup if the country is going astray. Meanwhile I found images of bearded fundamentalists with gleeful expressions beating up restrained soldiers. Doesn't bode well.

Turkey are equating their state of emergency with France. One difference would be that France aren't locking up thousand of judiciary and cleansing their education system.