The attempt was real. It was actually planned pretty well. Their plans were exposed. They panicked, couldn't really follow through with all their plans. Generals that weren't part of the coup took the chain of command pretty fast to stop the attempt.
1) Parliament building was not empty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_Qt55kJVk
2) Apparently there were other jets that were actually following Erdogan's plane
3) They kidnapped almost all high ranked military personnel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--bCuv6G5I0. The ones that escaped actually took back the chain of command and was able to stop the attempt.
4) Does anything look staged in these videos; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTEbX7kvZ6E or this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkfIbfnZt_Y. Some of these people on the floor are 50-60 year old generals. What is their role in your scenario?
A possible friendly general is Mehmet Dişli, Erdogan's friends brother. https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-eas...
It would have been hard for a real coup to be as damaging as more time with Erdogan will be. It'll look like Syria in a year or two. We might as well just remove the name Turkey from the map and wait until the flames die out.
What kind of coup has a fighter jet with the President's plane in its sights, and then doesn't shoot it down, and instead allows it to land? What kind of coup doesn't bother actually capturing the leaders, and instead goes and captures a bridge? What kind of coup ignores the leaders but then shoots at protesters from helicopters? What kind of coup shoots at an empty parliament building?
If this was a coup, it was the most incompetent coup ever conducted in the history of the world. Turkey has had a bunch of coups over the years, and none of them looked anything like this one. When you want to conduct a coup, you do it in the middle of the night and you capture the nation's top political leadership first and foremost, and you definitely do not harm civilians.