According to the latest information, attempted coup in Turkey ended in a failure: Turkish army attacks the rebels and they surrender. As CNN writes, soldiers are surrendering en masse, walking away from tanks and abandoning their posts on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, which crosses the river that bisects the city. At the same time, Turkish Air Force planes fired missiles at rebel tanks, blocking the presidential palace. Turkish police reported that 16 organizers of the coup were killed during clashes near the parliament in Ankara.
As Al Jazeera television channel reports, military coup was organized by 400-500 officers in the rank of colonel and lieutenant colonel. Five generals and 29 colonels are relieved of their duty, according to Turkey’s Interior Ministry, and several high court judges are also being questioned. At least one air force base in the country is still in control of the insurgents, according to the ministry. Turkey's First Army Commander Umit Dundar has been appointed Chief of General Staff by proxy.
Prime Minister Binali Yildyrym, speaking to NTV television channel, said that he gave the order to destroy military planes, which were used by those who committed this coup attempt. According to him, they captured military airbase Eskisehir to the east of Ankara.
Some 754 people have been arrested following the coup attempt, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reports, citing the Interior Ministry. At least 60 people have died following the attempted military coup, a government official told CNN.
An official at Haydarpasa Numune Hospital in the Uskudar district of Istanbul tells The Associated Press they have admitted at least 150 wounded. The official refused to comment whether there were fatalities. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
It should be noted that citizens of Turkey did not support attempted military coup. Residents of the largest cities - Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir - took to the streets at the call of Erdogan. Many of them were holding Turkish national flags and portraits of the country's founder Kemal Ataturk. They are protesting against the attemp of military coup in the country.
As Turkish political scientist Togrul Ismail said in an interview with Vestnik Kavkaza, rebels overestimated not only their abilities, but also support for the coup by population. "At the moment, almost all rebels are suppressed. I think that above all, Turkish people won.One general and hundred officers is not enough to carry out a coup in Turkey: the population and the opposition simply did not support their crime," he noted. The expert stressed that they made a huge mistake when they started to bomb the parliament building. "They signed their own death sentence by this."
He also pointed out that the coup attempt was committed not by a large group, and it is wrong to say that the entire army supported the coup. The situation in the country is quickly returning to normal, the first flight departed from Istanbul airport.
