Military coup in Turkey?

[fornowagain]

Reports big explosion at Istanbul Airport

 

[dowie]

Reports big explosion at Istanbul Airport

pretty ballsy of Erdogan to land there (if that was his jet landing not too long ago), though presumably he escaped some time before this explosion

 

[fornowagain]

Twitter says jet bombed the Airport.

Also "There are no dead in the parliament. 12 officers wounded"

On the FB feed earlier

Sky News Newsdesk ‏@SkyNewsBreak 3m3 minutes ago
Update - Reuters: Witness says tens of Turkish soldiers have surrendered their weapons to armed police in #Istanbul's central Taksim Square

 

[Rroff]

Twitter says jet bombed the Airport.

Wonder if its lone holdout or whether the situation is still in progress - hard to make out any more.

 

[r44b]

As terrible as the violence and loss of life is, it is fascinating to watch this unfold. Amazing how fragile the situation is and how quickly the momentum seems to be shifting back and forth in defiance of whatever the latest news reports say.

 

[Concrete]

Lets hope they got him.

 

[fornowagain]

pretty ballsy of Erdogan to land there (if that was his jet landing not too long ago), though presumably he escaped some time before this explosion

Mahir Zeynalov ‏@MahirZeynalov 3m3 minutes ago
Erdogan's plane took off again after a blast in the Istanbul airport.

 

[dowie]

Twitter says jet bombed the Airport.

bit ridiculous if they have bombed it long after he has landed and left the plane anyway... especially considering he'd been circling and broadcasting his position which was easily viewed by anyone on the internet.

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

i think the military is fighting back now? what the hell is going on?

 

[dowie]

Mahir Zeynalov ‏@MahirZeynalov 3m3 minutes ago
Erdogan's plane took off again after a blast in the Istanbul airport.

that makes more sense

 

[StriderX]

Civilians being shot by Apaches seemingly

 

[fornowagain]

i think the military is fighting back now? what the hell is going on?

Has Avrat ‏@hasavrat 5m5 minutes ago
Has Avrat Retweeted ahmet şık
As of 03:10 this morning, TSK via its website has stated that the coup attempt is ongoing. Contradicting MIT.

 

[dowie]

Civilians being shot by Apaches seemingly

that might also explain the results in the horrific video mentioned by Mynight

 

[fornowagain]

What's the tracking on Erdogan's jet doing?

 

[r44b]

Civilians being shot by Apaches seemingly

It looks like it could be footage from an earlier scene, shot from a different angle. The previous video seemed to show someone filming from distance toward the back of a gathering as tracers hit the ground close to civilians.

 

[Bonjour]

Definitely conflicting reports. Al Jazeera quite early on said it was over, and then this filtered through to the other news channels. Looking on other sources though, such as Reddit, it appears to be far from over.

 

[Mynight]

that might also explain the results in the horrific video mentioned by Mynight

Yeah I was just thinking that .

Had a quick google what weapons the Apache has and it certainly explains it.

I guess on the bright side it's not like they suffered .

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

These are Cobras, not apaches. Turkey doesnt have apaches

 

[dowie]

What's the tracking on Erdogan's jet doing?

no longer tracked - well it did land earlier so it is either that or they've realised they were rather silly previously and stopped it

 

[muon]

Definitely conflicting reports. Al Jazeera quite early on said it was over, and then this filtered through to the other news channels. Looking on other sources though, such as Reddit, it appears to be far from over.

All main new channels basically saying it is over, which makes chronological sense.

On reddit and even in this thread, people seem to be jumping back and forth across different events over the past 2 hours.

Soldiers are surrendering. There may be isolated incidents happening, but they achieve nothing.