{"id":66881,"date":"2016-07-16T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66881"},"modified":"2016-07-16T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T12:57:09","slug":"turkish-military-coup-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66881","title":{"rendered":"Turkish military coup failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/turkish-president-says-hes-control-coup-faltering-071351073.html?nhp=1\">Associated Press<\/a>, the military coup in Turkey against the Recep Tayyip Erdogan government has failed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erdogan was on a seaside vacation when tanks rolled into the streets of Ankara and Istanbul. He flew home early Saturday and declared the coup to have failed.<\/p>\n<p>The uprising appears not to have been backed by the most senior ranks of the military, and Turkey&#8217;s main opposition parties quickly condemned the attempted overthrow of the government. Gen. Umit Dundar, newly appointed as acting chief of the general staff, said the plotters were mainly officers from the Air Force, the military police and the armored units.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benali Yildirim said 161 people were killed and 1,440 wounded in the overnight violence. He said 2,839 plotters were detained. A source at the office of the presidency, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, said the 161 toll &#8220;excludes assailants.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A group of the lead plotters flew to Greece in a Turkish Army helicopter and asked for asylum. I guess they had planned for failure, not for success &#8211; that&#8217;s why coups fail in the modern era. In the good old days, it was a fight to the death. Last man standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press, the military coup in Turkey against the Recep Tayyip Erdogan government &hellip; <a title=\"Turkish military coup failed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66881\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkish military coup failed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}