Unfortunately, the coup has pretty much failed and Erdogan will stay in power. Erdogan is basically an ayatollah in a suit and without a beard. Turkey, under Erdogan, is becoming a hard-core Islamist state. That is not a good thing.

One other thing I find fascinating about this is in relation to conversations I see here from time to time. Some people have this romantic notion of "revolution" or it's "time to hit the reset button" or whatever, in our country. Well, this is what it looks like if things don't "reset" the way you want them to. Revolution doesn't always work and sometimes things turn out worse for the rebels than they were before. Just because you decide to have a revolution doesn't mean things are going to go your way. There are a lot of folks in Turkey learning that very hard lesson this morning.