If the coup had succeeded, he warned, the plotters would "already be fighting among themselves."

It is generally conceded that if they had done so, the coup would have succeeded.

"If the coup had succeeded, it would be a Gringo army."

When the coup neither fails completely nor succeeds, a civil war is a likely consequence.

When the coup had succeeded, he was brought to Ankara.

Like what you see in documentary movies when a military coup succeeds.

But even if the coup had succeeded, our behavior would have been very stupid.

A real coup might well have succeeded, given enough troops, but it did not come.

But he added: "No coup would succeed without the king's consent."

Now that the coup clearly had succeeded, Lodge no longer needed to offer such an incentive.