A faction of Turkish military staged an unsuccessful coup on Friday, leaving in its wake over 200 people killed and nearly 3,000 soldiers arrested for their roles.

President Tayyip Erdogan did not only survive the coup, but his administration did.

Reuters’ writers Ece Toksabay and Paul Taylor provide an insightful analysis of why the coup failed in a dramatic and swift way.

Here are 11 key points they raised:

1. The coup was by defeated by 21st century technology and people power.

2. The rebels struck on a weekend when the president was out of town at a holiday resort. They seized the main airport, sealed off a bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, sent tanks to parliament and Ankara and to control the main road junctions, and broadcast a statement on TRT state television declaring a curfew and warning people to stay at home. But they failed to capture any of the ruling AK Party leaders or to shut down private television, mobile phone signals or social media networks, enabling Erdogan and his aides swiftly to call supporters into the streets to resist the coup.

3. Their biggest handicap, said Turkish analyst Sinan Ulgen of the Carnegie Europe think tank, was that they acted outside the military chain of command and hence lacked sufficient resources to take control of key levers of power.

4. The rebels also failed to capture any military installations or any of the (political) leadership.

5. Erdogan used modern communications technology nimbly to get his message out to the population of nearly 80 million, outflanking the plotters. He used the FaceTime video application on a reporter's smartphone to broadcast a message live on CNN Turk, a private TV station which the plotters tried but failed to silence.

6. Erdogan’s predecessor, Abdullah Gul, also used FaceTime to shout angry defiance at the coup plotters on CNN Turk, and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu spoke by mobile phone with Al Jazeera television to call the takeover a failure.

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Fact sheet
•On Friday night, a group of middle-ranking Turkish soldiers attempted a coup
•Taking control of bridges, airports, the parliament, and some police stations.
*The police aided by the huge public support thwarted the efforts.
•194 people killed
1,500 wounded
3,000 soldiers arrested
•The government blamed the coup on the Gulen movement.
Some ministers blamed the US
•It is not known who is behind this coup. It is too early to say.
•The coup attempt is now a pretext to purge state and society beyond those
involved in the coup.
47 military officers were involved in the coup, but
3,000 officers including tens of generals arrested.
2,745 judges and prosecutors sacked.
Judiciary judges are detained.
•Were those lists ready upfront so the government would get rid of all those
people under the pretext of the attempted coup?
• In the early hours of the coup by a personal statement Gulen absolutely and unequivocally condemned the coup attempt without if’s and but’s.
•Gulen and Hizmet is Erdogan’s “default scapegoat”. Whenever something happens that Erdogan does not approve, he blames it on Gulen.
• Gulen becomes a pretext to purge state and society of anyone not entirely loyal.
•It is far easier to blame this on Gulen because that is a narrative the public have already come to accept by the managed perception of the pro-Erdogan media.
*Turkish people even those staunchly critical of Erdogan and the government condemned the coup and stood by the government against the military
•In his 1st and 2nd terms, Erdogan ran a reforming government.
•Since 2010 Erdogan became increasingly authoritarian
*Pursuing more populist Islamist policies.
•Authoritarian attitudes got worse with corruption investigations that went public in December 2013 implicating Erdogan’s inner circle.
*Rather than going to the court and come out clean Erdogan subjugated the judiciary, media and civil society and dissent.
•Erdogan has already won. There won’t be any meaningful opposition to his witch-hunt.
•Having attained complete loyalty from Turkish state and civil society structures, Erdogan next stop is likely to be the Turkish diaspora overseas.
•Coordinated attacks against Hizmet overseas are likely to continue.