Coup attempt in Turkey ends in disaster

President Erdogan is hell-bent on recreating the Ottoman empire with himself as the Islamost leader; a Stalin- or Putin-style ruler with the power to lock up or kill anyone who disagrees with him. The military officers who made such a small and ill-organized power grab were probably trying to check Erdogan's Islamist agenda in the hope of getting into the EU and onto the gravy train faster. Turkey is now even further away from satisfying the basic conditions for membership, and heading in the wrong direction. Which isn't such a bad thing, really, with Erdogan turning himself into Turkey's version of Vlad Putin with the support of his own version of Momentum.