Turkey Coup’s Social Fallout: Secular Population in Danger?

‘As a “secular Muslim” (I use that term very loosely, as more of a cultural description because I do not practice or support organized religion) I am rather perplexed by the social fallout of the failed military coup in Turkey.
While it remains to be proven, Erdogan has officially blamed the coup attempt on the US-backed, self-exiled hard-line Islamist Fethullah Gulen. Gulen is a former political ally of Erdogan and is just as radical—if not more so—an Islamist as Erdogan and his AKP party. If Gulen (with help from the US) was indeed behind the coup attempt, then it is a case of Islamist vs. Islamist and not secular factions within the state trying to take the country back from Erdogan and the Islamists (as many initially thought).’
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