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When do cops and soldiers turn over to the other side during a revolution?

For example in Turkey now, there is the Prime Minister with legalised monopoly on violence and hordes of riot police, cops, soldiers to attack the protesters.

Meanwhile, the protesters are getting more people, eventually becoming more organised etc. But I imagine that the police and soldiers are not just robots who follow orders right?
gpt
Turkey doesn't have police, they have a gendarmerie. That may seem like nitpicking, but it isn't. This is a sub dedicated to social science so it is a distinction that cannot be ignored. The underlying relationship between police officers who are citizens of the city they police...and a gendarmerie composed of constantly rotated barracks-dwelling officers with no attachment to the populace...is pretty significant. Socially, Turkey's police are just a military that looks inward.