Yes, take David Graeber, who's written extensively on Turkey and the extraordinary revolutionary Kurds: https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/700436062469038080 and https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/754071680977399808

(Regardless of particulars — did the US initiate it? support it? simply signal they'd stand back and let a friendly coup happen? — he has a good predictive mental model.)