Take a look of recent Coup incident
As stills of Turkish soldiers patrolling the streets of Ankara and Istanbul burst onto our television screens along with the news that an attempted coup d’etat has faltered, two events in South Asia from the 1970s came to mind – the capture of power by the Pakistani army under General Zia-ul-Haq who deposed the elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the clique of colonels in Bangladesh who killed the country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman before installing the puppet regime of Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed, who was said to have the tacit backing of the United States.
Military putsches have not just been confined to South Asia. Instances of bloody coups were the norm rather than the exception in several African and South American countries in the 1960s and 70s when these countries were the playground for superpower rivalry. And in each of these cases of violent overthrow of the elected political or military regimes a basic point is asserted again and again: governmental institutions and leadership in those systems subject to domestic military intervention are weak or impotent, and therefore, vulnerable to interference from men in uniform.
Now the point is Turkish coup doesn't have the support of people of turkey but with the frustration developed in Indian people regarding the political system and corruption, there might be a possibility that a military coup in India is welcomed by people in India. This is a very vital point as a coup only sustain when there is public support.
As stills of Turkish soldiers patrolling the streets of Ankara and Istanbul burst onto our television screens along with the news that an attempted coup d’etat has faltered, two events in South Asia from the 1970s came to mind – the capture of power by the Pakistani army under General Zia-ul-Haq who deposed the elected prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the clique of colonels in Bangladesh who killed the country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman before installing the puppet regime of Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed, who was said to have the tacit backing of the United States.
Military putsches have not just been confined to South Asia. Instances of bloody coups were the norm rather than the exception in several African and South American countries in the 1960s and 70s when these countries were the playground for superpower rivalry. And in each of these cases of violent overthrow of the elected political or military regimes a basic point is asserted again and again: governmental institutions and leadership in those systems subject to domestic military intervention are weak or impotent, and therefore, vulnerable to interference from men in uniform.
Now the point is Turkish coup doesn't have the support of people of turkey but with the frustration developed in Indian people regarding the political system and corruption, there might be a possibility that a military coup in India is welcomed by people in India. This is a very vital point as a coup only sustain when there is public support.
