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Chaos and Uncertainty in Turkey; Deadly Attack in South of France; Turkish Prime Minister Addresses Nation; CNN Tweets Coup Minute by Minute; Turkey's Internal Struggles. Aired 5-6a ET

Aired July 16, 2016 - 05:00   ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST: We are following two major stories at the moment. In Turkey, chaos and uncertainty, after elements of the military tried to seize control of the country. But the president has defiantly declared the government stopped the coup attempt.

MAX FOSTER, CNN HOST: In Southern France here, ISIS claims it's inspired the Bastille Day massacre in the street behind me, as investigators discover new information about the man who killed more than 80 people.

Hello and welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Max Foster in Nice.

ANDERSON: I'm Becky Anderson, in Paris for you.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): This is CNN breaking news.

FOSTER: This only happened in the last few minutes, really. We are just here learning that ISIS is claiming it inspired Thursday's terrorist attack here in Nice in France; a total of five people have now gone into custody following that attack.

A French official says that includes the suspect's ex-wife. Authorities have been trying to determine if the attacker had any help from other people. Now French officials say Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was the man who plowed a rented truck through crowds celebrating the French national holiday.

Police shot dead the 31-year-old man born in Tunisia and the French prosecutor says there were no signs that he was radicalized but that he was known to police for minor crimes.

There were 10 children, would you believe, amongst the 84 people who were killed. And the road behind me is about to be opened up, which is why you can hear this commotion and see the commotion. There is a real determination here that life should get back to normal after that horrific incident.

We're going to bring in Nima here because we're talking about ISIS claiming it inspired the attack.

Does that mean it claimed responsibility for the attack?

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's what's been really interesting about this claim, the wording. So although they say the attack was carried about by soldiers of the Islamic State, where it's usually they're meaning the word is very clear on the (INAUDIBLE) when they had, when they have been involved in the planning, there has always given evidence, in Bangladesh, in Dhaka.

They immediately released the pictures of the attackers. Here, they are sourcing it to a security source within the ISIS infrastructure, so it's almost like they are giving themselves a little bit of wiggle room.

They clearly -- the sense that we are guessing is that they perhaps don't even know the extent of any their members' involvement with it. So many of these cases are either self-radicalization or online, recruiters reaches out to these people.

But also we have to remember Omar Mateen and that Orlando night club. Sometimes it is people who have severe mental health issues.

And this man definitely had a very difficult and disturbed homelife by the sounds of it. To our inspired online, watching these videos on their own. And ISIS have always been very good at grasping at opportunity when they can.

FOSTER: And it's interesting, because when you speak to the officials here, they say there are no signs that he was radicalized but he must have been radicalized. There's no evidence actually. There might not even be any online. But he was directly inspired by ISIS.

He could have just been this madman who was frustrated with his estranged wife.

So that's -- you think that's why that we may have this wording in the statement?

ELBAGIR: Yes, absolutely. And the details of his homelife are disturbing, the fact that he smeared excrement through his estranged wife's house, those four men now in custody will be (INAUDIBLE) because clearly the authorities are working exactly that.

Did anybody else work with him?

Can we tie him to anybody else?

Because in these hours after the attack, the broader network is always so, so important.

FOSTER: OK, Nima, thank you very much indeed. We continue to follow for the latest developments.

Becky, over to you for that (INAUDIBLE) too, in Turkey.

ANDERSON: Thank you, Max.

And in Turkey, hundreds of people are now under arrest after an --

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ANDERSON: -- attempted military coup sparked violence, chaos and fears for the country's future.

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ANDERSON (voice-over): At least 90 people were killed and 1,000 wounded by gunfire and explosions and soldiers and tanks rolled through the streets of Ankara and Istanbul overnight.

The soldiers met resistance from thousands of government supporters. They flocked in the streets after the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pleaded for their help.

As dawn broke, many of the soldiers surrendered, some coming face-to- face with angry civilians, who circled their tanks before a cheering crowd in Istanbul early on Saturday.

Mr. Erdogan insisted he had prevailed.

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RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, PRESIDENT OF TURKEY (through translator): This nation brought a certain government using their own will by election. The government is in control; 50 percent of the people elected a president and that president is on duty.

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ANDERSON: All right.

Well, local media also got caught up as the coup attempt unfolded, including CNN's affiliate, CNN Turk. Friday night soldiers entered its studios in Istanbul and took staff members out for a period of time.

Turkey's state-run TRT network, troops stormed in as well, pulled down their signal. Video of the scene was posted on Twitter.

Well, the situation in Turkey is still very, very fluid. Journalist Andrew Finkel has been reporting in and about the country for decades. He joins me now via Skype from Istanbul.

An attempted coup, quashed, it seems; and the president, he says he is back in control. It's been a chaotic and bloody night in Turkey.

Andrew, describe what you saw and heard.

ANDREW FINKEL, JOURNALIST: Well, it's a quiet day, I have to say. There is a demonstration behind me impacting the square. But generally, I think people are weary and just really want life to go back to normal.

It all started, as you said, last evening, when there were troops stopping people crossing the Bosphorus Bridges, the two major arteries in Istanbul, which traffic goes across. And we wondered if this wasn't another ISIS attack or another sort of attack.

In fact, it turned out, as we very quickly discovered, to be a military coup. There were planes flying low over Ankara, over the capital. The actual grand national assembly was bombed and people died in that bombing.

That assembly is going to reopen this afternoon in an extraordinary session. So as the evening progressed, the coup makers did all the classical things that coup makers are meant to do. They seized the television stations. They ordered a curfew.

But the government really swept this all aside. Mr. Erdogan appeared in the most extraordinary format on an iPhone, which a television presenter popped up on front of the screen. He was talking on some sort of social app.

And he said, you know, ignore this coup, the ignore the curfew. Go out into the streets, occupy the squares and occupy the airport. And that is precisely what his supporters did, much to the astonishment, I think, of the coup makers, who goodness knows what they were expecting, that they would have things their own way -- Becky.

ANDERSON: Andrew, if there was ever an opportunity for a crackdown, well, it seems this will be it, correct?

FINKEL: Well, I think that may well turn out to be the case. We know that Mr. Erdogan has moved very insistently, very deliberately to really limit opposition in Turkey. He controls the newspapers. He controls the television stations. He even controls the judiciary.

And most people thought he was pretty happy with the control he had over the military. But really not happy enough. In the days preceding this coup, we saw reports in newspapers that the government had great plans in a forthcoming military council, in which officers were promoted or retired or shuffled about, that he was basically going to weed out what they call this sort of better (INAUDIBLE) opposition.

They regard people who -- pretty much all opposition in Turkey has been branded as the followers of this cleric, who happens to reside far way in Pennsylvania. So we were expecting a sort of great Musical Chairs of shifting and changing of officers this --

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FINKEL: -- August. Perhaps that's why these coup makers decided to sort of preempt this by staging this coup. But in effect they not only didn't succeed in staging a coup, they basically gave Mr. Erdogan an open door to take charge of the military.

ANDERSON: Confusing and troubling times in Turkey, Andrew, for the time being, thank you, the Turkish (INAUDIBLE) journalist Mustafa Akiel (ph) now joins us on the line from Istanbul as well. He's an economist for Al-Monitor, which is a website reporting on Middle Eastern affairs.

Reports citing sources locally, that Turkey's top judicial body has now convened to decide on judges and prosecutors linked to the president's opponent, Fethullah Gulen, who, as Andrew is pointing out, Erdogan is accusing of plotting this attempted coup.

If that is indeed the case, just how significant is all of this?

MUSTAFA AKIEL (PH), AL-MONITOR: Well, Becky, is it possible to judge for sure. But the usual suspect is yes, the Fethullah Gulen community and its members in the (INAUDIBLE) in this case, the military, the thing is they have denied any involvement (INAUDIBLE) issued a statement last night. We had nothing to do with this (INAUDIBLE) coup.

But on the other hand, Turkey had various cases before that they've denied any moment in the police and judiciary, but then what if other face pointed out that they actually have some presence. That's one thing.

Plus they have been the most, you know, agitated point of the government lately. And they have become the enemy of the government and the government has become the enemy of them.

So a lot of people guess that. I mean, the government is certain (INAUDIBLE) people, some people outside of the government think that, to be like (INAUDIBLE) something to do with this.

Again, this has to be confirmed. It has to go to a fair trial. I mean, it cannot be taken as a blank (INAUDIBLE) statement to the way everybody may be at the moment.

But a lot of people in Turkey are feeling sure that that is the case.

And of course that will open a new chapter in Turkish politics. I mean, the coup, the people who are involved in the coup will be certainly arrested and then taken to court and penalized.

But also maybe the broader (INAUDIBLE) will have more crack down the road, being cracked down by the government. Plus this will highly empower President Erdogan and because now he's survived a coup. He's (INAUDIBLE) bravely stood and the people will rally behind him.

This will further give him more aura, more power to (INAUDIBLE) and I think it will help him to maybe get the (INAUDIBLE) that so many he's been asking for, for quite a while.

ANDERSON: Right.

This coup attempt in Turkey, the latest example of increasing instability in a country that, just a few years ago, was being touted as a model of democracy and economic prosperity.

How did things get this bad?

AKIEL (PH): Becky, that's a question we are asking to ourselves, how Turkey got this (INAUDIBLE). Apparently, some of the demons (INAUDIBLE) tradition in this country didn't totally vanish, despite the progress we made in the first decade of the 2000s.

And in the past four or five years, things started to unravel because of this war in Syria, because of an ambitious but not successful foreign policy about the Middle East and because of President Erdogan (INAUDIBLE) at home, which may be (INAUDIBLE) as well.

Yes, still, I think yesterday it was important that a lot of the opponents of President Erdogan stood with him against the coup. Opposition parties, the main opposition secularist party, the People's Republican Party, the other two parties in the parliament and mainstream media, secular media, they said we are against the coup. We are not with Erdogan on many issues but here's an elected government and (INAUDIBLE) this government cannot be accepted.

So that can actually now be the basis of President Erdogan's goes more in that direction for more reconciliation in the country. I mean, the coup attempt and the people behind that will be and should be severely punished because they killed 90 people and tried to destroy the whole constitutional order.

But besides that, maybe President Erdogan can realize that, well, so the people he saw as coup makers, just journalists who criticized him actually stood with him last night when (INAUDIBLE) coup. And if he can use this, it can be a chance for reconciliation in the country.

But we will see what direction President Erdogan will take and it just (INAUDIBLE) right now.

ANDERSON: Days and months to come, of course --

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ANDERSON: -- 60 dead, 1,000 wounded and 1,500 rounded up and arrested overnight.

Thank you, sir.

Much more on Turkey in a moment, viewers. Let's now though turn to Max Foster, who is in Nice -- Max.

FOSTER: Well, Becky, we are getting much more detail really on the suspect behind Thursday's terror attacks here in Nice in France. And you will hear from a person coming up, who witnessed the awful massacre.

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FOSTER: Welcome back to you. We are just learning that ISIS is claiming it inspired Thursday's terror attack here in Nice in France. The terror group says the attacker responded to calls to target people in the countries fighting ISIS.

French authorities have not indicated that the attack was a part of a larger ISIS plot or that the suspect took direct direction from ISIS. A total of five people now are in custody in connection with the attack. A French official says that includes the suspect's ex-wife.

Authorities say Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was the man who plowed a rented truck through crowds celebrating the French national holiday here. And police shot dead the 31-year-old man born in Tunisia. Officials say he was known to police for minor crimes.

Joining me now is the vice mayor of Nice, (INAUDIBLE).

Thank you very much indeed for joining us. We should probably explain that there is lots going on behind us because this is obviously where the attack took place. You're going to open this up very soon.

VICE MAYOR OF NICE: Yes, we are going to open it up this afternoon. And we hope we will be able open the beaches today and the bars and restaurants also because the best restaurants to these terrorists is (INAUDIBLE).

FOSTER: So this is a sign of your defiance in the face of this threat?

VICE MAYOR: Yes, of course, we have been very shocked by what's happening, the first time something like this is happening in Nice. We are in one of the most beautiful avenues in the world. This city is a very attractive city for all the world and one of the most touristic. We can't imagine what happened two days ago, so we are thinking to the victims, helping the families because it is necessary. They are in a bad, very bad situation.

FOSTER: When we come back to you, we've got to just cross over to Turkey now because the prime minister is making a statement on the attempted coup.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you hear me?

(INAUDIBLE). I am sure you can. We tested this before.

FOSTER: OK. We got a moment of that for you, because we thought we had translation but we don't. But we do have people monitoring it. We're going to bring you the very latest on that.

We're going to return now to deputy mayor of Nice.

And you were talking about how this is an act of defiance against, it now turns out, to be ISIS, because I know that everyone suspected ISIS were somehow involved. But they're not claiming direct responsibility here. They're suggesting he was inspired by ISIS, which -- apologies. We do have that translation now. So we're going back to Turkey. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): A coup was attempted by a parallel gun and against them we have been defending democracy. Our noble nation has been defending democracy all the night and the events to their normal lives in the morning.

I would like to congratulate all my citizens, kissing them on their heads. And they made us proud by making sure our red flag is up about high in the sky and they have responded in the best way possible in the face of this terror gang's attempt.

So this has turned into a festivity of our democracy, celebration of our democracy, 15th of July. And those who lost their lives as a result of all this happening are police officers, are security forces and our civilian citizens.

We are grateful to them. And I would like to extend my condolences to their loved ones. And I share their pain and sorrow. And I hope those wounded will get well soon, with the help of God.

Our security forces who fought heroically, I congratulate them, together with our nation. We have overcome a very big trouble.

What's pleasing is that this attempt, this attempt has not taken place through the hierarchy of our armed forces but only a formation of parallel terror caused managed this attempt.

On this occasion, everyone that loves their motherland and nation and flag and never supported this treacherous attempt are their commanders and army officers, both to congratulate.

And also from the first moments of the incidence of starting, the non- government organization members, our citizens and political party supporters have filled the squares, have filled the streets, especially those who fought heroically and risked their lives.

I mean our special forces, our police officers and all our national security forces, I would like to extend my gratitude to them all. And I congratulate them all for the heroic acts they have displayed.

My dear citizens, this incident we went through made something clear. Turkish nation has a very important experience, valuable experience when it comes to the issues of democracy.

And people's will is so much important to ensure the independence of our country. And the whole world's watched this, especially those who prevented traffic from the bridges or blocked the roads or --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): -- faced by our people, who stopped at times, who climbed over the fence, risked their lives and are martyrs who gave away their lives for this cause. They'll never be forgotten by this nation.

And in such difficult times, we have been contacted by friendly countries and offers of solidarity. I would like to extend my thanks to those countries.

To my dear brothers, sisters, this parallel gang members are now in the hands of the esteemed Turkish justice and they will be punished in every way they deserve through this process.

Yes, our nation at this incident have shown quite the attitudes shown by our people, the way they stand firmly and reacted properly, have prevented the people's will, the national sovereignty being toppled down, thanks to these citizens.

Everyone should understand that no one will be able to make a mess of the people's will. They will never be able to come over the willingness and power of our people.

The fact that our citizens went back to their normal lives is also an indication of how strong and decent attitudes they have displayed. Those using state's tanks, state's bombs, state's weapons, state's planes and helicopters, they shooted the citizens of this country. And they are worse and more treacherous than the PKK terrorists.

This nation will never, ever forget about this treacherous gang. Some of our friends, somehow, found it difficult why we make such a fuss about this gang. They didn't understand and, in fact, they didn't cost us dearly.

Those citizens who came to tackle those tanks and risked their lives, we are grateful to them. And I hope God's forgiveness and affection will be with our martyrs.

Yes, this attempt has been dealt with and we are now in control but we have martyrs, 165 martyrs and there are 1,040 people are wounded -- 1,440 people wounded, 2,089 people at various degrees of ranks, either army officers or soldiers, have been detained, 2,839 military members detained.

And some of them are high ranking officers. They managed to get through the one big trouble once again, with high qualities -- thanks to the high qualities of our nation. But from the start of all these incidents, the stance displayed by our president, our head commander, which included dear love of country, thanks to our commanders also, who love their country.

We have became a single entity. Remain strong and we manage to overcome this huge trouble. And it was something that has never seen before.

[05:30:00] And I am grateful to my guard for the turn of events in this way, in the end. And those are the members of press, those writing reports or broadcasting, they have also displayed a huge display of love, of motherland.

And, from the start, they have not faltered. They have sided with the government, the state and our people.

And they managed to pass information in the best way possible, so that people were able to find out about events in the true way. And also all the political parties and non-governmental organizations,

regardless of the differences of opinion in many respects, they ought to join those who came out to the streets and managed to put our red flag with stars and to be placed on top of those tanks.

Thank you for all this display of presence and, thank you, everyone, dear members of press. The first league of the matters have now been ended, came to a completion. From this point onwards, we will work out while our citizens are back to normal lives.

On the other hand, we will combat these circles, these formations, who are trying to degrade our country and nation in the eyes of the whole world. We will combat these people.

And we will maintain our path in the same attitude, firm and decided, in a firm and decided way. And this is our festival of democracy now. And so they are, after finishing work in the evening, I am expecting, hoping our people to flow to the street with their flags in their hands.

And once more I would like to extend my gratitude to my dear nation and also congratulate the general directors, the heads of the political parties for the display of presence in the wake of all these events.

And this afternoon, at 2:00 pm, our general assembly, grand assembly will assemble, will have, hold a meeting to discuss all the details of these incidents.

We can see that the chief of staff of armed forces is back. Other commanders who could not join you, who are not able to come back to their offices, without any communication possible, my dear friends, there is nothing to be concerned in respect of our commanders.

The situation is under control and in a short while our commanders will be back on the normal duties.

They are already attending their duties. These soldiers, members of military, who will be tried, will they be tried of treason against motherland?

Or do you intend to bring capital punishment back?

And also against (INAUDIBLE) will there be an attempts?

Also, we are talking about only those who were detained.

How many people died from among those who have made this attempt?

Can you give some information on that as well?

Colleagues, as you know, we have just left --

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BILDIRIM (through translator): -- very grave incidents. The detentions are still -- arrests are still being made. It's not entirely complete. And also the crime committed is very clearly defined in our legal system, as is known.

Dear friends, the capital punishment have been taken out of the Turkish constitution and Turkish legal system. Today, our noble assembly will get together and discuss the measures that can be taken to prevent Turkey will not face this sort of madness again in the future.

Whichever legal measures need to be taken, we will discuss with other party leaders and we will work on them. According to the initial information obtained, those who attempted to coup, about 20 of them died and near 30 wounded; these are not definite figures.

Perhaps later on the real figures will be revealed. Therefore, these figures are not binding or definite figures. I want to express that. What I'm expressing is what we could establish so far.

Friends, Fethullah Gulen is the head of a terrorist organization. We already were aware of this. And there has been a national Security Council decision on that matter and every sort of initiatives have been taken, including to request him back to our country.

He is that sort of person. And especially after what we went through last night, yesterday night, this person, this man, anyone who backs this gang leader, head of a terrorist organization, I can't think of any country who will back him up from now on.

I cannot think of any country who is going to back him up or stand behind him. Any country who might do that is not a friend of Turkey and, on the contrary, is involved in a serious war against Turkey.

Real friendships will be seen after what we went through. The -- this gang leader who caused all this should be punished in the way he deserves.

Thank you very much. Please, go ahead.

QUESTION (through translator): Mr. President, yesterday said the general secretary of the presidency has been held captive.

Do you know if he is in good health or was he contacted?

BILDIRIM (through translator): What is the second?

QUESTION (through translator): You said you left the first stage of things behind and we are in control now.

Can we ask to you repeat your message once again?

Can we say that what's happened yesterday will not continue anymore, no more bombings or anything like that?

Is there a complete control about these matters?

BILDIRIM (through translator): Dear friends, the general secretary of our president is now on his way to his home. There is nothing to be worried about. What I am saying is this is a very important, very large-scale incident against the people's will in Turkish democracy history.

This is the biggest attempt of a military coup. And the main difference between this attempt of military coup and the others is the fact that our citizens took to the streets, captured the times, climbed over the times and almost in a way to mob lynch these attempts, the coup makers, in such strength and such decisiveness and without even waiting, the security forces, they were able arrest some of --

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BILDIRIM (through translator): -- these guys and stop some of them.

I am very proud being a part of such a nation. This is a Turkish nation. This nation contains Turks as well as many other sects and at this stage but what is not changing here is single nation, single motherland, single flag.

Once again, the nation valued their states and sided with their states. The peace in the country committee that attempted this military coup.

Are their names in from the committed that died?

There are many, some are arrested. Some are being arrested. Some are searched for. Those who were the backbone of this, those who were the brains behind this attempts, have been all taken and under control.

Yes, it's true that this is the result of joint work. Our security forces have worked in a really good, coordinated way with our prosecutors over the night. And through some detailed (INAUDIBLE) work, everything needs to be done has been done judicially, in respect of these people who were behind this attempted coup, without any delay.

And, therefore, I thank, on this occasion, to all our prosecutors and chief prosecutors, they have displayed a really good performance. And beyond everything, I would like to repeat that our president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as the head of our nation, from the first moment said, we might die but we are not going to give up.

He said if a price needs to be paid for the future of this country, we are going to pay this price, full stop. The result we achieved right now, thank God, is something that makes us proud and our nation is proud as a result.

QUESTION (through translator): Have they been some of those...

BILDIRIM (through translator): According to information we have at this moment, I make these comments. The work will continue during the day. We cannot give any further details than what I have already given.

QUESTION (through translator): Mr. Dundar (ph) said 104 of those attempters of the coup has died. But you said 30 of them died.

(INAUDIBLE).

Is there any possible changes or postponing the date of the military council?

BILDIRIM (through translator): Those who became involved in this attempted coup has nothing to do with their ranks anymore, whether they are generals or colonels, doesn't matter. regardless of the ranks, if you are involved in treason, you =do not have ranks, as simple as that.

QUESTION (through translator): So you against this unfortunate events, you are inviting our citizens to the streets this evening as well. But as a member of press, I was nearly about to be lynched, mobbed by these citizens, people. They were trying to incite -- and some members of press have been beaten up.

Are you going to say anything about this, invite people to calm down, especially those among public office holders?

Are you going to take any steps?

BILDIRIM (through translator): The gang, the parallel terrorist gang, the terrorist gangs who want separation, they are against the unity of this state. They are trying to harm the unity of our citizens. And whoever has made any attempts towards that, we will ask for prices to be paid. And --

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BILDIRIM (through translator): -- everyone involved, we are aware of everyone involved in this and whatever is necessary to be done will be done without any delay.

Members of press, I am sorry to hear what is suffered. The detail of the members of press is to express what -- tell our nation what's going on. As a result of the stress and the heat of the things, certain unwanted incidents may have taken place and we apologize for this.

But as you can understand, it is not easy to control the psychology of the people in the heat of things. But I now appeal to my nation, to people, today is not the day to separate or oust anybody on the country.

Today is the day to unite everyone, regardless of members of press or not, young or old, men or women, we have to be together. We have to be one Turkey all together.

QUESTION (through translator): Have you received any intelligence about this matter?

BILDIRIM (through translator): Yes, everything about that is being assessed, will be assessed. Yesterday's attempted coup damaged the national grand assembly, I

understand. How our assembly of parliament will continue, (INAUDIBLE). We are a noble nation. We are a grand nation.

You see, there has been terrorist attacks in Brussels. And in 10 days, they couldn't open their airports. But in our case, we opened our airport back in five hours after a terrorist attack.

So what I'm saying is what you (INAUDIBLE), you can win back, you can win back better material lost. But when you lose lives, you can't get them back.

What our biggest loss is our martyrs. And they failed in this attempt. But they will pay the price. They will get the punishment they deserve.

QUESTION (through translator): This attempt, obviously, took place after some serious preparation taking place. Although my colleague asked, can I ask this way, in terms of intelligence matter, is there a need to change the mechanisms of intelligence gathering?

BILDIRIM (through translator): Friends, colleague, of course, this matter will be assessed in every aspect of the matter. Nothing is going to be missed. Wherever there is a weakness or negligence or insufficiency of any mechanism, this will all be evaluated, assessed in details. But not this very moment.

This moment, what we are involved is to ask the punishment, the price to be paid by those who caused all this.

Thank you very much. Thanks.

ANDERSON: Right.

The situation completely under control, the Turkish prime minister speaking to the press, congratulating those who he described as martyrs, those who helped quash the military coup attempt overnight, calling their acts heroic. He went on to say the Turkish nation has been through a valuable experience in upholding democracy and said the world is watching and offering their support, their words of support.

The treachery of the coup plotters, he said, will never be forgotten. He echoed the president's words earlier, blaming the Fethullah Gulen, the exiled Muslim cleric, a vehement opponent of the president; Gulen, himself, has condemned the coup attempt and has denied any role in it.

More than 100 killed, 1,000 injured and 1,500 rounded up in the wake of a bloody and chaotic night.

The coup attempt in Turkey is the latest example of increasing instability in a country that just a few years ago was being touted as a model of democracy and economic prosperity. My colleague, Ivan Watson, has more on how Turkey got to this point.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The government is simultaneously fighting Kurdish militants from the Kurdistan Worker's Party or PKK, as well as ISIS militants. The civil war --

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WATSON (voice-over): -- in neighboring Syria continues to spill over. There are now homeless Syrians struggling to eke out a living.

Turkey's multibillion-dollar tourism industry has suffered several blows.

An important trading partner, Russia, called for a boycott of Turkey's beaches and goods after Turkish warplanes shot down a Russian bomber.

And amid the many challenges Turkey faces, it is perhaps more politically polarized than ever, with a population divided between those who love and those who loathe Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current president of Turkey, a man who has dominated the political scene in this country for some 14 years.

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ANDERSON: We'll take a very short break. Back after this.

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ANDERSON: Moments ago, Turkey's prime minister said the situation in his country is the under control after an attempted military coup. More than 1,500 Turkish military officers detained after the attempted takeover after a long night of violence and chaos.

More than 150 people are reported dead and more than 1,000 are hospitalized. At dawn on Saturday, the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, addressed a large crowd in Istanbul. He called the coup attempt treason and said his government is in control. Well, CNN's Natalie Allen now shows us how it all unfolded on Twitter.

NATALIE ALLEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CNN tweets on the attempted coup began at 11:30 pm local time in Turkey with the reported statement by the prime minister that Turkish military units are attempting an uprising.

Just before midnight, CNN showed Twitter video of a military jet flying extremely low over the Turkish capital of Ankara.

At 12:07 am, the Turkish military says it has taken control, according to Reuters; 40 minutes later, CNN tweeted, "Turkish military has taken over the government and imposed martial law, according to an announcement read on Turkish TV."

Then just after 1:00, CNN tweets, "The Turkish president is urging people to take to the streets, to stand up to the military."

His message had been conveyed through a FaceTime address on the phone of a CNN Turk anchor.

At 1:23 am local time, "CNN reports gunfire heard in streets amid military coup attempt in Turkey." That confusion and chaos continued for some time.

Then just after 3:00 am, CNN tweets that "Turkey's national intelligence unit claims the coup is over. But confrontations between military and demonstrators continue."

At 3:47 am, CNN Turk anchor reports, "Soldiers have entered the building. That's it. We now have to go."

Then at 5:00 am, CNN tweets "President Erdogan says law enforcement has --

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ALLEN (voice-over): " -- started arresting military officers."

By 5:26 am, CNN Turk was back on the air after being shut down briefly.

And at dawn, Turkey's president tells a large crowd in Istanbul, "The government is in control." -- Natalie Allen, CNN.

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ANDERSON: While coups are nothing new in Turkey, the military there has a history of ousting civilian leadership. Let's just remind ourselves.

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ANDERSON: The latest attempted military coup failing. A bloody and chaotic night in Turkey. I'm Becky Anderson in Paris. "NEW DAY" with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul just ahead. Stay with us.