Turkish military says it’s taken control

Who represents the group remains uncertain. There is no cause for concern. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make public statements.

Earlier, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim vowed the coup attempt would not succeed. “We shall determine soon who they are”.

He says: “We think it would be right for them to go out to the airports, to the streets, especially to the main arteries”.

“We continue to advise Australians to exercise a high degree of caution in Turkey overall and to reconsider their need to travel to Istanbul and Ankara”.

There is, however, nothing in NATO’s founding 1949 Washington Treaty that says anything about allies intervening in ongoing internal political unrest. “They took our phones”. CNNTürk reported that two busses full of soldiers entered the headquarters of the state-run TRT in Ankara.

Turkish military jets have flown over Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and deadly fighting has been reported in what appears to be an attempted military coup.

All flights from Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport have been cancelled, according to reports. When a auto tried to stop one of the tanks, the tank rammed through the vehicle.

Following the report, Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would overcome what he called an uprising by a minority, the BBC reported.

The office of the president has only confirmed that wherever he is he is safe.

Erdogan said he believed the attempted coup would be over within a “short time” and said those responsible would pay a heavy price in the courts.

“There is absolutely no chain of command here”.

A presidential source said Erdogan was in a secure location as per government protocol.

The National Security Council said Obama has been apprised of the “unfolding situation” in Turkey and will be receiving regular updates.

All Turkish airports are closed and a nationwide curfew imposed as a section of the armed forces claimed to have taken the country over.

Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member, is a key partner in U.S.-led efforts to defeat the Islamic State group, and has allowed American jets to use its Incirlik air base to fly missions against the extremists in nearby Syria and Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Moscow that he has been given reports about what is going on. Other countries issued similar advice. Despite whatever blocks are in place, Periscope is very popular in Turkey, and a number of livestreams are now showing protests occurring around the country.

But CNN-Turk has quoted Defense Minister Fikri Isik as describing it as a “pirate statement”.

It said the move had been made “in order to ensure and restore constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms and let the supremacy law in the country prevail, to restore order which was disrupted”.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave a brief statement via CNN Turk calling on the country’s people to fight back against what he called a Gulenist network effort to undermine the country’s democracy.

“Some people illegally undertook an illegal action outside of the chain of command”, Mr Yildirim said in comments broadcast by private channel NTV. He added that the government would not allow any “initiative that would interrupt democracy”.

Travelers reported on their Twitter accounts that airliners were stopped from taking off, while military aircraft were seen flying over Ankara, the capital.

Police officers stand guard near the Turkish military headquarters on July 15, 2016 in Ankara, Turkey.