‘They will pay a heavy price for their treason’: Turkish soldiers surrender after their military coup fails, by Hannah Parry.

More than 750 rebels have been detained after their failed military coup that killed at least 60 as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows revenge for the bloody uprising.  …

The rebel army faction – who call themselves the ‘Peace Council’ – said they were trying to overthrow the government to ‘protect human rights’ and restore democracy from Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, AKP, which has repeatedly faced criticism from human rights groups and Western allies over its brutal crackdowns on anti-government protesters.

However, Erdogan has blamed his old scapegoat, Fethullah Gulen for orchestrating the uprising. Muslim cleric Gulen, the president’s rival who lives in self-imposed exile in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania as the head of a billion dollar religious movement, has often been blamed for political unrest in Turkey.

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