janisj

Apparently the Military has taken control

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...rd-in-ankara1/

Is otherchelebi still traveling in North America or are they back home now?

Hope everyone is safe.

mr_go

I'm following a live feed. Multiple reports that Turkey's top general being 'held hostage' at military HQ. Still sorting thru it all...

mr_go

Turkey's state broadcaster has been stormed by the military & staff have had phones confiscated, according to Sky News.

mr_go

All flights out of Istanbul are cancelled, says Fox News.

thursdaysd

Well, I'm glad I'm not due there until September! Sincerely hope otherchelebi is still in the US.

I entirely sympathize with wanting to get rid of Erdogan, but I will be rather surprised if this works.

christycruz

We are supposed to be flying to Istanbul tomorrow evening, out of San Francisco, on Turkish Airlines, in route to Paris. Now what, I wonder?

mr_go

christy, get on the phone with them, if you can. Maybe you can re-route...it's worth a shot. Good luck.

janisj

A coup is a scary thing - but Erdoğan seemed like an evil ba$!^rd

>>We are supposed to be flying to Istanbul tomorrow evening<<

Wow -- have you heard anything from the airline?

christycruz

No. I'm going to see if I can get through to them.

christycruz

The 800 number isn't working. I'm trying to find out the number of the ticketing desk at SFO. I think they just opened.

annhig

OC was still tweeting, as of an hour ago:

https://twitter.com/ahmetcelebiler

mr_go

Erdogan in airplane, refused landing at #Istanbul, now trying to seek asylum in Germany, US defense officials say, @MSNBC

Macross

Thanks for the tweeter link, crazy. Christy, good luck to you, not the place to be.

christycruz

Thanks. I'd be very happy to just continue on to Paris, thanks!

SFO lists the Turkish Airlines flight at 6:10pm today heading to Istanbul as being "on time." Really??

christycruz

We spent a wonderful month traveling throughout Turkey 16 years ago. I was really hoping to show Istanbul to my teenager. I'm so sorry for the Turkish people. My travel hassles are the least of it.

FranknSense

Who plans a coup for a Friday? NATO has all kinds of basket cases in membership these days

thursdaysd

From the BBC site looks like a failure.

Leely2

Wonder what the fallout will be. Hope very much this hasn't made things worse.

All the Turkish people I know are secularists and oppose Erdogan, so of course that colors my perspective.

otherchelebi

A qualified failure.

There are apparently some F16s still flying and bombing places.

Some gunfire heard not far from where we live in Istanbul.

I have been tweeting like crazy from Chicago and hoping we can fly back next week.

A major possibility that the whole thing is a sham staged by Erdogan to make sure he gets his dictatorship having crushed all opposition.

We have a saying in Turkish, "Stick with both ends dipped in s..t"

You can follow my tweets at link given by Annhig or read some of them (last one first) here


#Military might eventually returns to their barracks. but religious fanatics & their instigators can survive under all conditions.

36m36 minutes ago
Once you get fundamentalist fanatics into the streets, is there a way of sending them back to wherever they came from?

38m38 minutes ago
#DoganNewsAgency, #ChannelD & #CNNTurk are shut down by force while we heard a large group chanting "God Is Great" in the background.

40m40 minutes ago
#Turkey: Gov says they have full control, and proves it by closing down all opposition TV. But F16s are flying and bombing places.

Pepper_von_snoot

Erdogan is blaming my Pocono neighbour, Fettulah Gülen, for the coup.

Keith and I saw him at Olive Garden recently eating bread sticks.

Stay safe.

Where is Orhan Pamuk right now?


Thin