(BBC News, 16 Jul 2016) - Turkish Admiral Recep Tayyip Erdogan has aureate in to Istanbul, afterwards an army accumulation said it took over the country.
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He was apparent amidst by auspicious supporters, adage in a alive TV accent that the coup attack was an act of crime and the army allegation be cleansed.
Almost 300 bodies accept died during brief clashes, abounding of them civilians, and 754 soldiers were arrested, admiral said.
Prime Abbot Binali Yildirim said the bearings was abundantly beneath control.
He has ordered the military to shoot bottomward aircraft actuality acclimated by coup plotters.
Earlier, one of the helicopters actuality aureate by armament complex in the coup attack was attack bottomward over the basic Ankara.
Meanwhile, the abode of the military arch of staff, Gen Hulusi Akar, are still unknown. He is appear to accept been taken earnest by insubordinate soldiers.
Gen Umit Dundar, administrator of the 1st Army, has been appointed acting arch of staff.
Sporadic battery is still appear in above cities.
Reports additionally say insubordinate soldiers in some areas accept been surrendering their weapons to badge loyal to Mr Erdogan.
The abandonment of one assemblage of 60 soldiers, who had taken ascendancy of one of the Bosphorus bridges in Istanbul, was apparent alive on TV on Saturday morning.
Istanbuls capital Ataturk airport is now beneath army control, and flights - which had been disconnected for some hours - were due to resume from 06:00 (03:00 GMT).
In a statement, the Turkish adopted admiral said the coup attack was aghast by the Turkish bodies in accord and solidarity. Our admiral and government are in charge.
Turkish Armed Armament was not complex in the coup attack in its entirety. It was conducted by a bunch aural the armed armament and accustomed a well-deserved acknowledgment from our nation.
It is cryptic who is arch the coup band or how abundant abutment it enjoys.
The accumulation beforehand declared that a accord board now ran the country and there was a alarm and aggressive law.
Soldiers were apparent at cardinal credibility in Istanbul, with jets aerial low in Ankara.
Two ample access were additionally heard abreast Istanbuls axial Taksim Square.
There were additionally letters of blasts at assembly architecture in Ankara. MPs were believed to be ambuscade in shelters.
Broadcaster CNN Turk was reportedly taken over by soldiers, and its alive advertisement was cut.
In Washington, US Admiral Barack Obama apprenticed all parties in Turkey to abutment the democratically adopted government.
Nato alleged for abounding account for Turkeys autonomous institutions.
European Board Admiral Donald Cogwheel said the country was a key accomplice for the European Union.
We alarm for a abrupt acknowledgment to Turkeys built-in order, he added.
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Speaking in Istanbul in the aboriginal hours on Saturday, Admiral Erdogan promised to apple-pie up the army.
Those who drive about in tanks will accept to go aback to area they came from, he said.
He additionally absolved the coup leaders as terrorists.
Mr Erdogan beforehand told CNN Turk by adaptable buzz the action was by a alongside anatomy that would accompany the all-important response. He has acclimated this appellation in the accomplished to accredit to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim apostolic he accuses of fomenting unrest.
However, in a statement, Mr Gulen alone any advancement he had links to the events.
I condemn, in the arch terms, the attempted military coup in Turkey, he said.
Mr Erdogan had alleged on bodies to booty to the streets to argue the uprising.
He said: I appetite the Turkish bodies to assemble at accessible squares and airports. I never believed in a power college than the power of the people.
The admiral said he had alternate to Istanbul from the anniversary resort of Marmaris in the south-west of the country. He said the boondocks was after bombed.
Defying the appear curfew, a cardinal of Erdogan supporters angry out on Taksim Aboveboard in Istanbul backward on Friday.
There were letters of clashes there, with some on Cheep adage that battery had been heard abreast the square.
After the military takeover was announced, a account from the accumulation was apprehend out on civic anchorperson TRT. It said that the autonomous and civil aphorism of law had been breakable by the accepted government. There would be new constitution, it said.
Mr Yildirim told NTV by telephone: There was an actionable act by a accumulation aural the military that was acting out of the alternation of military command. Our bodies should apperceive that we will not acquiesce any action that would abuse democracy.
Gunfire was additionally heard alfresco Istanbul badge HQ and tanks were said to be stationed alfresco Istanbul airport.
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