More info on coup and state of affairs in Turkey -
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/world/middleeast/failed-turkish-coup-accelerated-a-purge-years-in-the-making.html
...
Many have wondered how the government could so quickly identify so many thought to be traitors. The answer, Turkish officials say, is that they had been preparing for this for years.
Government officials have been candid on that point, saying that before the attempted coup, they were already compiling lists of military officers and other officials who were suspected of loyalty to Mr. Gulen.
But since the government officials did not have sufficient evidence to convict them in court, they planned to sideline them over time, Mr. Simsek, the deputy prime minister, told reporters on Thursday.
“We knew a lot, but either we didn’t have enough legal basis or the time” to remove the Gulenists from government, he said.
“We are not making up these stories; this is not some Jason Bourne trilogy,” Mr. Simsek added. “We have these massive cells, networks, and they have a bank. They have massive financial resources.”
Those efforts got a boost this year, when Turkey’s intelligence service captured a secret communications channel used by Mr. Gulen’s followers, revealing tens of thousands of names and identification numbers, according to the Turkish security official who was inside the government compound in Ankara when it was attacked.