Turkish military broadcasts on state TV amid coup reports
An announcement on the Turkish state broadcaster TRT says that a curfew has been declared across Turkey and that airports are closed. The announcer says they are being made to read a statement by the military.
The statement promises a new constitution for the country and says that democracy and the secular rule of law had been undermined. Martial law has also been imposed, it adds.
The US secretary of state John Kerry says he hopes there will be peace, stability and unity within Turkey amid reports that a military coup is underway.
Soldiers are inside the buildings of the Turkish state broadcaster TRT in the country’s capital Ankara, a correspondent for that outlet tells the Reuters news agency.
The full Turkish military statement reads: “Turkish Armed Forces have completely taken over the administration of the country to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and general security that was damaged.
A Turkish military stands guard in the Taksim Square in Istanbul. Photograph: Murad Sezer/Reuters
“All international agreements are still valid. We hope that all of our good relationships with all countries will continue.”
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on holiday and outside the country. Reuters has quoted a source within his office as saying that he is safe.
Presidential sources say: “This is an attack against Turkish democracy. A group within the armed forces has made an attempt to overthrow the democratically elected government outside the chain of command.
“The statement made on behalf of the Armed Forces wasn’t authorised by the military command. We urge the world to stand in solidarity with the Turkish people.”
Some more detail on the statement said to come from Turkey’s armed forces. They have reportedly said in emails reported on Turkish TV that they have taken power to protect the democratic order and to maintain human rights.
They added that all of Turkey’s existing foreign relations would be maintained and that the rule of law would remain the priority. The Guardian has not seen the correspondence and, therefore, can yet verify where it has come from or on behalf of whom – exactly – it was sent.
The Associated Press is now carrying fuller quotes from the Turkish prime minister’s interview with NTV.
Having confirmed his belief that an attempted coup was underway, Yıldırım said: “We are focusing on the possibility of an attempt [coup]. There was an illegal act by a group within the military that was acting out of the chain of military command. Our people should know that we will not allow any activity that would harm democracy.”
The Dogan news agency said one-way traffic on the Bosporus and Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridges were blocked. Video footage showed the bridge being blocked by military vehicles.
Turkish soldiers block the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul preventing cars leaving the Asian side of the river. Photograph: Emrah Gurel/AP
According to the Associated Press, Yıldırım, who was speaking to the local TV station NTV, said: “It is correct that there was an attempt.” He provided no further details but said Turkey would never allow any “initiative that would interrupt democracy”.
Police officers stand guard near the Turkish military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Photograph: Tumay Berkin/Reuters
Yıldırım says those responsible for what he has called an attempted military coup will pay the highest price.
Turkish security officers detain police officers during a security shutdown of the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. Photograph: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images
A witness in the country’s capital told Reuters that gunshots were heard as military jets and helicopters were seen flying overhead. Witnesses in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, also spotted helicopters overhead, the agency reported.
The local broadcaster NTV reported that both of Istanbul’s bridges across the Bosphorus, the strait separating the European and Asian sides of the city, had been closed to traffic. It was not immediately clear if the events were related.
The Turkish prime minister Binali Yıldırım says that an attempted coup by parts of the military has been launched, according to Reuters. He reportedly added that security forces were doing what they could to resolve the situation.
Having looked at it again in the light of day I am with you. There is a good chance that this is a false flag all with the intention of consolidating power in the hands of Erdogan so then he can do to Turkey and the Region what International Jewry demands.
Unlikely that it’s a false flag run by Erdogan because of the geopolitical balance of power shifting in Assad’s favour with Kerry no longer pushing for Assad’s removal.
IMO the attempted coup was the best alternative path for Zionist ambition in Syria.
Quite a reflection on Turkey and the Turkish people that you have the army trying to get into power one bunch of Crypto-Jews while the people come out to show mass support for Erdogan just another Satanist.
Whent the Real Brits got the chance they slapped all of the sickos in the face
BREXIT.
Now we are going to find out if the so-called Tories (not much conservation of culture or ethnicity in Eastern Britain these days…lol) have anything real left.
Forget the crypto-Jew / Satanist business. It is just business and power.
Erdogan creates theatre. He wants to remove the fundations of Ataturk’s secular republic and create a Caliphate/Otoman style retro system.
Turk friends are sad, they say, “… we are ISIS…”
I tell them so are we! We pay for it too.
The immams were calling from the mosque all night to encourage AKP/religious supporters to the street.
The BBC are clueless; no sense of deeper analysis.
How extraordinary to think, thank goodness Putin is close by to keep tabs on these lunatics… may be he’s playing us too.
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i would suggest that the BBC craftily appear to be clueless as part of their iniquitous corrosive strategy.
It is also black comedy at its best that the Erdogan regime are whining about an attack on their democracy given that prior to the rigged elections interested parties bumped off the opposition via terrorist acts.
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False flag coup?
Having looked at it again in the light of day I am with you. There is a good chance that this is a false flag all with the intention of consolidating power in the hands of Erdogan so then he can do to Turkey and the Region what International Jewry demands.
Unlikely that it’s a false flag run by Erdogan because of the geopolitical balance of power shifting in Assad’s favour with Kerry no longer pushing for Assad’s removal.
IMO the attempted coup was the best alternative path for Zionist ambition in Syria.
Quite a reflection on Turkey and the Turkish people that you have the army trying to get into power one bunch of Crypto-Jews while the people come out to show mass support for Erdogan just another Satanist.
Whent the Real Brits got the chance they slapped all of the sickos in the face
BREXIT.
Now we are going to find out if the so-called Tories (not much conservation of culture or ethnicity in Eastern Britain these days…lol) have anything real left.
D-Day for the Conservative Partei
lol !
Forget the crypto-Jew / Satanist business. It is just business and power.
Erdogan creates theatre. He wants to remove the fundations of Ataturk’s secular republic and create a Caliphate/Otoman style retro system.
Turk friends are sad, they say, “… we are ISIS…”
I tell them so are we! We pay for it too.
The immams were calling from the mosque all night to encourage AKP/religious supporters to the street.
The BBC are clueless; no sense of deeper analysis.
How extraordinary to think, thank goodness Putin is close by to keep tabs on these lunatics… may be he’s playing us too.
It’s theatre. Avoid buying into the fear.
Erdogan creates theatre. Quite this is looking like a stageshow enabling Erdogan’s “night of the long knives”
The BBC are not clueless they are part of the problem.
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His work goes on.
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The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface — and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.) But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon, Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare, William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller family, and more. Almost all the machine’s creators had CIA backgrounds.
Yes, part of the problem, but BBC are mostly clueless.
i would suggest that the BBC craftily appear to be clueless as part of their iniquitous corrosive strategy.
It is also black comedy at its best that the Erdogan regime are whining about an attack on their democracy given that prior to the rigged elections interested parties bumped off the opposition via terrorist acts.