turkey was in chaos in the early hours
of Saturday morning after an attempted
coup left Turks businesses and
international allies unsure of who was
in charge of the country clashes between
police to president Erdogan and a
faction of the military began on Friday
night and soon turned violent with loud
explosions rocking the cities of a
Canberra and Istanbul Jensen flying
overhead police officers arrested
soldiers trying to enter the
presidential palace the Anadolu news
agency reported as members of parliament
hid in the parliament building
president Erdogan landed in Istanbul on
his presidential plane just after 2:00
a.m. local time earlier he had appeared
on television from an undisclosed
location via a mobile phone video app
calling on citizens to come out on the
streets to defeat the UM rising military
crews have toppled Turkish government's
at least three times since 1960 on
Friday night a previously unknown group
calling itself the Council for peace in
the homeland said it had taken over to
reinstate constitutional order Human
Rights and Freedoms the rule of law and
the general security that was damaged
mr. Curwen and others in his government
blamed Fethullah Gulen a us-based
preacher who was once his ally there
were spokesmen for mr. Gulen denied that
he was involved Andrew H cliff Johnson
Financial Times
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