It's not so strange when you realize each population is processing information through its own cultural filter, which is itself a product of differences in education and experience.
Many Westerners think the huge reaction to the July coup attempt - mass layoffs, arrests, etc. - is a harbinger of autocratic rule. Because that has been the Western experience. But the information in
the article above allows me to put a different spin on things: historically,
93% of those accused by Turkey's justice system are eventually acquitted. And Turks accept this as normal.
As far as I know, Western countries experience nothing like this. In America conviction or plea-bargain rates are well over 50%. That's because it takes pretty damning evidence to charge someone with a crime in the first place. So naturally, if Americans see tens of thousands arrested, we're thinking, "Oh, no, it's a dictatorship!" - whereas instead it is a form of justice, but rather different than what we're used to.
I suppose Turks are nearly as ignorant of non-Turkish democracies' justice systems as Westerners are of Turkey. So many Turks likely think that Western knee-jerk objections to such indicate support for the coupsters, when they do not.
They were top pro-AKP team when Fetö was ally with AKP. 
