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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Op I see only 6 and u said 10

you want me to click that link to get the full list? Well, i ain't doing that.

The people obviously loved their President. That to me was the number one reason

Let them come and learn from nigerian officers. Coup can be as successful as Muhammed Alis' career

Trouble in the Turkey coup, eh?