President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a phone interview on broadcaster CNNTürk that a "minority group" in the military has attempted a coup.
Erdoğan said the parallel state, referring to the followers of the U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen, has promoted the attempt.
"We will not leave the ground to them," he said, vowing to end the "occupation" by the group, called on nation to unite at squares and airports. Erdoğen said he would also be on the streets.
The move is not as part of the chain of command., he said.
"I am the chief commonder," he said.
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said earlier that Turkey is facing an uprising attempt from inside the army, with the state-run Anadolu Agency reporting that Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar is being kept as a hostage with a group. Erdoğan neither confirmed nor denied the information, telling that there was an "obscure atmosphere" of information.
A group naming itself "Peace in the Country Council," published a statement on Turkey's state-run broatcaster TRT, which it had taken over during the July 15 coup attempt, that it has taken tne power in the country.
The statement said the group so-called council will trial at "fair courts" all those "have betrayed the country.
The so-called council also declared a curfew.
A CNNTürk
reporter said a helicopter shoot on the General Staff headquarters in Ankara.
CNNTürk reported that two busses full of soldiers entered the headquarters of the state-run TRT in Ankara. Channels started to broadcast wheather forecast only.
"This cannot be called a coup for the moment. This is an uprising," PM Yıldırım said. The security forces are in action against this he said, in phone call to broadcaster NTV.
"We will punish it the hardest way," he also said.
“Our security forces will use force against force, he said.”
The head of the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) said on broadcaster CNNTürk on the phone that a group of soldiers were trying to take them out of the building.
He called on citizen to hit the streets against the attemp, similar to pro-govrenment papers on their websites.
Ambulances await in front of the General in Staff headquarters in Ankara, as entrance to the building is denied.
Atatürk Airport has been closed to traffic, with tanks waiting in front of it.
A number of armored vehicles have cut a main road in Istanbul, where the Istanbul police headquarters is located.
Gendarmerie has blocked entrances to bridges in Istanbul from the Anatolian to the European side of the city on July 15.
Reports said an explosion was heard in Ankara's Gölbaşı district.
Doğan News Agency reported that police in
Ankara called personnel to office.
Details to come...
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