Is something happening in Turkey right now? (UPDATE: Coup unsuccessful)

oh boy.... guess that what happens when you tread on the pokemon GOs of the poeple? Sry.. i can only do jokes, and bad ones. Hope everyone is safe.

Hoe it ends peacefully and the dictator goes away in a short time period because this doesn't end well in my experience.

Someone in the comments said it's not a big thing, as I expected. I'm not in favor of dictatorships but a coup d'état on a nation like Turkey is dangerous to the population living there.

If this coup succeed, Turkey will be gone for good.

Hope it ends soon peacefully.

Well, Erdoğan's golden gilded castle is being bombarded right now. I guess that's not a "big thing".

Sultan Erdogan should have realised that karma's a bitch.Now he will pay the price for his ottoman imperial ambitions.Probably by ending up on the sharp end of his janissaries bayonets.

For posterity's sake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0g09LfbNQ&feature=youtu.be CNN Türk Live Stream of Erdogan
https://twitter.com/srknaltunorak/status/754071707145662464 Mosques playing Salah (call to prayer) (? Not confirmed)

Last news:

It was NOT a coup, it was all an act of Erdoğan's to make his way into the dictatorship. He'll soon arrest everyone who opposes him, become a dictator in quite soon.

I'm out. I'll buy a ticket to Slovenia next week, I'm out for real.

Theatre of Erdogan is over. People with AKP flags pressing horns, beat the soldiers with tanks and planes^^

Good PR for election.

If this coup fails, will Erdogan become a dictator (well, he already was a dictator actually)? Aren't you worried what will happen next? Sad thing is that, no matter who wins, bad things will probably happen afterwards. :/

Damn. I go on leave for one week and the world goes crazy.
WTF is happening out there? It's sad to see the state of the world, especially since many people here think we have it bad.

:D

Erdoğan came and save the day. He is superior in all ways. He beat the bad guys with bare hands. Long live Turkey. Yay.
Coup in a nutshell.

I think you need to change the title of the thread it seems like the coup failed and they arrested most of them and there are so many people on the streets

It's being said that 17 police officers have been killed.

Turkey has military coups all the time. You can set your watch to it. They'll be fine.

I have a plane to take there in September...I'm not happy...

The army didnt win ,
they lost .

after a few hours they will be dead

Turkish national intelligence spokesman says coup attempt has been "repelled." , according to chat in the CNN Turkish Feed (i can't understand turkish)

Well I guess it's too early to say anyone won or lost. No reliable sources so far, at least in english, that any side won or the coup was really repelled. Same on Twitter at least in English. Everything else looks like propaganda, like the military lost or Erdogan is fleeing to London.

This shit is so fucked up. Oh he is on vacation , oh coup happens, coup gets eliminated in couple of hours . He returns back. He seeked asylum in germany too. According to the internet. Too bad i can't understand turkish. Hitler Level Speeches

"A bomb has reportedly hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara, according to the Associated Press, citing Anadolu Agency, a state news agency."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/jul/15/turkey-coup-attempt-military-gunfire-ankara

No fly zone declared in capital. Parliament building is being bombared lightly by helicopters obtained by coup. Only news coming from capital and istanbul. No news from anywhere else but it is confirmed coup started almost same time in most of country. Clashes and reports of death police officers coming.