© Ozan Kose, AFP | Turkish soldiers at Istanbul’s Taksim Square as people protest against the military coup on July 16, 2016.Turkey’s coup brought to you via plotters’ WhatsApp posts
Transcripts of WhatsApp messages reportedly exchanged by a group of Turkish coup plotters reveal a chilling tick-tock of how the July 15-16 putsch unfolded, from a smooth start to a harrowing finish.
If the recent Turkish coup attempt was effectively foiled on FaceTime, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned to social media to issue his call on Turks to take to the streets, the putsch plot appeared to have unfolded on WhatsApp.
