You might be speaking too soon.
The media is reporting his plane landed at an airport a few minutes ago, so if it is in the hands of the military then he will be captured.
Time like this though, don't believe anybody or anything you hear, including me.
He was reportedly on holiday in Turkey in Marmaris, so maybe they did not know where he was or did not have the man power to capture him.
I wonder how it would have played out if they had captured him. I can even imagine that more people would have protested.
Deliberately timing coups for when the standing leader is on vacation is actually not all that uncommon, because it makes it possible to contain them under pretense of normalcy. E.g. Gorbachev in 1991, where they basically locked him up in his Crimean residence.
Re:Coup attempt underway in Turkey
by einrealist on Friday July 15, 2016 @09:04PM
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Its funny how Putin and Erdogan were meeting a couple of days ago. Maybe Erdogan was warned and took "a vacation"?
Re:Coup attempt underway in Turkey
by adventured on Friday July 15, 2016 @09:44PM
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It was widely noted in the media that France closed its Turkish embassy (on "security fears") two days prior to this. It certainly makes you wonder if the word didn't get out.
Re:Coup attempt underway in Turkey
by ChristianBundy on Friday July 15, 2016 @10:03PM
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It's important to remember that those "security fears" were in reference to Bastille Day.
Where is that chart from, from the book mentioned a few comments above?
Update: Ok, yes, found it via Image Search: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-how-to-execute-a-coup-2...
According to that illustration, the coup plotters missed the crucial step of breaching the president's residence and capturing him. They completely mistimed the coup when the president was on vacation outside the country. Now he has been able to rally support against the coup and his supporters are on the streets protesting against the army