President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged the Turkish people to take the streets and voice their opposition to an ongoing coup attempt, Sky News channel reported, citing a Turkish TV channel interview on Friday after the army announced it had taken over the country. "I confirm that such a coup attmept will fail as most coup attempts in Turkey have failed. This one will also fail," Erdogan said in a Skype interview. The Turkish president said he was going to Istanbul airport to head to the capital Ankara. The Turkish military on Friday said that it had launched a coup, in what the prime minister termed an illegal act aimed at usurping the authorities. Soldiers were seen on the streets in Istanbul and Ankara as jets flew low overhead, while ordinary citizens rushed for the safety of their homes after witnessing the coup attempt. "The power in the country has been seized in its entirety," said a military statement quoted by Turkish media. 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." http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/233293.aspx
