Turkish's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan survived an attempted military coup which caused clashes ,chaos disruptions and turmoil in the nation . The Clashes have left at least many dead, and injured , Abot 3000 rebel soldier's were arrested .The nation's head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is as known an authoritarian/ dictatorial type leader , was lucky enough to survive the coup . Earlier too , at least four times in the past Turkey's history i.e. in 1960 , 1971 , 1980 , 1997 , through military coup incumbent leaders taken the reins . We can say a trend rather .