Turkish Military Seizes Power, Announcing New Constitution on Television
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16.07.2016(updated 00:34 16.07.2016) Get short URL
America's
leading NATO ally in the Middle East has fractured into pieces following an
apparently successful military coup to "restore the rule of law and
democracy."
Controversial
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have lost control of Turkey
with military forces seizing control of the state sponsored
television station saying that they were forced to seize control due
to what they view as dictatorial mandates by the country's
leader. Calling themselves a "Peace Council" on the TRT news
station, the military forces have declared that they will be announcing the
country's new constitution shortly that will provide robust protections
for human rights and the rule of law while laying out a
transition towards democratic rule.
The
Turkish military conducted the coup on Friday evening with initial
reports indicating gunfire had broken out in Istanbul and Ankara while
tanks and F-16s had been deployed in an apparent attempt to put
down the military coup. Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says that
the government remains in control and that the coup participants will
"pay dearly," but reporting on the ground by the RIA
news agency corroborated by the AFP indicates that the country's President
Erdogan is in a mad scramble to escape the country via the Ataturk
International Airport.
The
Turkish military said that they will be reading the new constitution
over television in the hours to come.
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