Saved by democracy, Mr Erdogan is now poised to make a bad name for it. It was as if the Turkish coup was going to render a verdict on Thailand's own twin coups over the past decade. Yet in the aftermath of Turkey's failed coup and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political survival, Turkish coup talk in Thailand has gone relatively quiet. On the other hand, the Turkish coup-makers' failure would have been tantamount to a rejection of military rule and the imperative of democratic government. When it was time for a showdown between anti-regime factions of the Turkish military, the civilian opposition sided with the Erdogan government.

Source: Bangkok Post July 21, 2016 22:03 UTC