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[StephanieVanbryce]

Say .. did you know that the military says it has taken over Turkey (a coup) ..

Your relative has come home right? or gone somewhere else ?

anyway .. Turkish Coup Attempt Under Way as Erdogan Vows to Stay in Power

July 15, 2016 — 1:13 PM PDT
Updated on July 15, 2016 — 2:52 PM PDT

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-15/turkish-premier-says-elements-of-army-attempt-to-seize-power

Turkey army says it seizes power; Erdogan says: "We will overcome this"

ISTANBUL/ANKARA | By Nick Tattersall and Tulay Karadeniz
| Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:40pm EDT

gosh, I feel guilty not putting this little snip in here

SNIP~

NOT A TINPOT COUP

A senior EU source monitoring the situation said: "It looks like a relatively well orchestrated coup by a significant body of the military, not just a few colonels. They've got control of the airports and are expecting control over the TV station imminently. They control several strategic points in Istanbul.

"Given the scale of the operation, it is difficult to imagine they will stop short of prevailing. It's not just a few colonels," the source repeated.

One European diplomat was dining with the Turkish ambassador to a European capital when guests were interrupted by the pinging of urgent news on their mobile phones.

"This is clearly not some tinpot little coup. The Turkish ambassador was clearly shocked and is taking it very seriously," the diplomat told Reuters as the dinner party broke up. "However it looks in the morning, this will have massive implications for Turkey. This has not come out of nowhere."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking jointly after talks in Moscow, both said they hoped bloodshed would be avoided. The U.S. State Department said Americans in Turkey should shelter indoors. Other countries issued similar advice.

Turkey, a NATO member with the second biggest military in the Western alliance, is one of the most important allies of the United States in the fight against Islamic State, which seized swathes of neighboring Iraq and Syria.

Turkey is one of the main backers of opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in that country's civil war, host to 2.7 million Syrian refugees and launchpad last year for the biggest influx of migrants to Europe since World War Two.

Celebratory gunfire erupted in Syria's capital Damascus as reports emerged that Erdogan had been toppled, and people took the streets to celebrate there and in the government-held section of the divided city of Aleppo.


That is just a part of the article . .
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-primeminister-idUSKCN0ZV2HK

Aren't they NATO ??? of course I have no idea how nato practically works their work out .. so.. ...hmmn?