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Live blog update| Turkey Coup
This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: Coup attempt in Turkey

PM Yildrim: "Commanders are safe and sound"

PM Yildrim said:

  • Turkey to consider legal change to permit death penalty for military involved in failed coup
  • 2639 military personnel have been arrested
  • 161 people dead excluding the 104 dead from the coup plotters. 
  • Attempts have been made to extradite Gulen from the United States
  • President Erdogan is on his way back to Ankara