Turkey crushes attempted coup

What we know so far of the attempted military coup in Turkey.

HOW THE TURKISH COUP ATTEMPTED UNFOLDED

* An arm of the Turkish military announces late Friday it is seizing power in Turkey to restore order.

* It later shuts down key bridges, takes control of Istanbul's Ataturk international airport and issues a curfew.

* President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a phone call from an undisclosed location to broadcaster CNN Turk, calls for people to take to the streets to protest the coup.

* Chaos reigns across Turkey overnight amid reports of aerial dogfights and bombings, military blockades and clashes between mobs and armed forces.

* Turkey detains 1563 army personnel and removes five generals and 29 colonels from their posts.

* Acting military chief Umit Dundar says a total of 194 people have been killed: 47 civilians, 104 military personnel, 41 police officers and two soldiers not involved in the plot.

* Erdogan blames the coup on Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic preacher and one-time ally who fell from Erdogan's good graces for allegedly orchestrating a corruption scandal in 2012 and running a "parallel state".

* Gulen comes out against the coup, saying "governments should be won through a process of free and fair elections, not force".

* Prime Minister Binali Yildirim calls for an emergency session of parliament to take place on Saturday afternoon.


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Published 16 July 2016 7:30pm
Source: AAP


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