Turkey: An attempted Turkey military coup appeared to crumble in the early hours of Saturday after crowd answered President Tayyip Erdogan’s call to take to the streets to support him. At least 60 people killed and 336 detained in the night of violence across Turkey. The majority of those killed are civilians and most of those detained are soldiers, a official says.

Amid turmoil, Prime Minister Yildirim said a national curfew was announced, and other security forces had been called in to “do what is necessary”. He said a General was killed and 130 soldiers detained in the coup attempt.

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“I am calling on our nation. Go to squares, let us give them the best answer,” Erdogan said in a video message from a cell phone that was broadcast on a cell phone connection from what appeared to be a private residence. “I do not believe this coup attempt will be successful. No coup-plotter in history has ever succeeded,” a Turkish news agency, reported the President as saying.

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