Since it happened, and Erdogan came swooping out of the sky to come back to "save his country", I've had suspicions he was involved. Even the western media was reporting that turkish people felt that this coup attempt was weird and different. If it's filtering down to CNN etc... Idunno. It just makes me suspicious, and I'm not your usual conspiracy enthusiast.

I think it's interesting that the PKK came out against the coup as it was happening. the PKK is, as you say, the biggest domestic problem. I wonder if they came out against it not because they didn't want it to succeed, but because they wanted it to be harder for them to be blamed for it if and when it failed.

It's also interesting that the man that Erdogan blamed as organizer is a former ally who now lives in like, Pennsylvania or something. If the US doesn't want to extradite him back to Turkey, it may be used as bargaining chips (or at least, I imagine that would be the idea) - i.e. "you won't give me this man, at least give me the weapons to stabilize my country."

I'm probably overthinking this.