After the coup, the counter-coup

THE brutality of the soldiers’ power-grab still horrifies many Turks. Each day brings fresh footage and stories of what took place during the long, bloody night between July 15th and 16th: one mobile-phone video shows a group of bystanders near the presidential palace in Ankara overwhelmed by the blast of an air strike; another captures a man diving to the ground between the tracks of a tank to avoid being crushed, rising to his feet, then falling again to save himself from another one; a third records soldiers shooting down unarmed protesters.