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If you're not up on the latest events in Turkey, here's a brief explainer about the coup attempt and what brought it about.

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Less than 24 hours after surviving a military coup, Turkey's embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded the U.S. hand over the man he says was responsible for Friday's putsch.

If you were writing a "how to" textbook for overthrowing a democratically elected government, the curious coup d'état in Turkey would definitely lead in the "doomed to fail" chapter.