:00:20. > :00:22.Turkey's Prime Minister has said an attempted coup to take over
:00:23. > :00:25.the country is now over, although there have been reports
:00:26. > :00:28.Binali Yildirim said more than a hundred and sixty people had
:00:29. > :00:30.died and nearly three thousand military personnel
:00:31. > :00:36.Throughout the night, the cities of Ankara and Istanbul
:00:37. > :00:39.were rocked by gunfire and explosions after rebel soldiers
:00:40. > :00:40.launched attacks with tanks and helicopters.
:00:41. > :00:43.It is not yet clear who is behind the coup.
:00:44. > :00:56.Soldiers surrender, walking away from tanks with their hands held
:00:57. > :01:03.above their heads. Less than 12 hours since the attempted coup
:01:04. > :01:07.began, reports now say it is over. Last night, police loyal to
:01:08. > :01:13.President Erdogan clashed with members of the military. At least
:01:14. > :01:19.194 people are dead, and more that 1,000 injured.
:01:20. > :01:22.It began when rebel soldiers closed the main bridges in Istanbul,
:01:23. > :01:26.effectively severing the link from Europe to Asia. In an address to the
:01:27. > :01:30.nation, a group from within the ranks of the military seized control
:01:31. > :01:34.of the state broadcaster, afterwards the presenter said she had been
:01:35. > :01:43.forced to read the statement held at gun point.
:01:44. > :01:47.TRANSLATION: Dear Turkish citizens the working system of the Government
:01:48. > :01:54.has been eroded and the laws and the system that's our Government runs on
:01:55. > :02:00.have been made invalid. As reports circulated a fighter jets
:02:01. > :02:04.taking to the skies and tanks firing on Parliament the President took to
:02:05. > :02:10.video messaging urging supporters to come out on the streets which they
:02:11. > :02:15.did. Some mounted the tanks grabbing guns from soldiers' hands. This
:02:16. > :02:19.morning tanks left abandoned in the city centre, the streets quiet now
:02:20. > :02:24.but evidence of last night's violence is all around. This is the
:02:25. > :02:27.state of the Turkish Parliament and Presidential buildings in Ankara
:02:28. > :02:30.today. There is still a sentence sense of chaos but the Prime
:02:31. > :02:36.Minister insists that the situation is now under control.
:02:37. > :02:42.TRANSLATION: What happened on the night of 15th July is a black stain
:02:43. > :02:46.on Turkish democracy. The people who attacked the civilians with the
:02:47. > :02:53.bombs, tanks, planes and helicopters, of the state, are worse
:02:54. > :02:56.than the PKK terrorists. Britain's in Turkey are being
:02:57. > :02:58.advised to stay indoors. The new Foreign Secretary said the UK
:02:59. > :03:03.remains very Matthew McConaughey certained is about the situation.
:03:04. > :03:07.They are working very hard as you can imagine, to do the best for the
:03:08. > :03:11.many Brits who are there, the many people there on holiday, and that I
:03:12. > :03:15.should follow the travel advice, and we will do our best to update you as
:03:16. > :03:19.soon as we can. More than 2.5 million Britons visit
:03:20. > :03:23.Turkey every year, some flights to and from the country are still
:03:24. > :03:25.cancelled or diverted until the situation becomes clear.
:03:26. > :03:28.Our correspondent Katy Watson is in Istanbul, and our political
:03:29. > :03:30.correspondent Chris Mason is outside the Foreign Office.
:03:31. > :03:36.Katy, events are still unfolding, are they?
:03:37. > :03:42.Bring us up-to-date with events now. I am in the square in the centre of
:03:43. > :03:46.Istanbul, which is quiet now, although in the distance there is a
:03:47. > :03:51.pro Government protest going on, now. As we have heard the Government
:03:52. > :03:54.said it has got the situation under control, I was on the Bosphorous
:03:55. > :03:58.Bridge earlier and they were removing the last tanks from last
:03:59. > :04:05.night. The foreign ministry said they have asked for the ex tradition
:04:06. > :04:09.of eight soldiers who have landed in a military helicopter in Greece,
:04:10. > :04:14.according to reports eight soldiers were asking for asylum, that is the
:04:15. > :04:16.latest so far, but as you said it is still a very fluid situation, the
:04:17. > :04:20.Government says it has got things under control but we are far from
:04:21. > :04:25.knowing exactly what has been going on and what will be going on, there
:04:26. > :04:27.will be an a meeting in Parliament later today, and hopefully we are
:04:28. > :04:28.get more detail then. Thank you.
:04:29. > :04:31.Chris Mason is at the Foreign office.
:04:32. > :04:39.What are they saying there? There is a sense here of the fluidity that
:04:40. > :04:44.Katie described in Turkey, officials here arriving from very early on
:04:45. > :04:47.this morning, just after 6am, the new Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
:04:48. > :04:51.had been kept abreast of developments until the early hours
:04:52. > :04:55.and again first thing this morning, I saw him arrive just before 8.00am,
:04:56. > :05:00.you heard his reaction just a couple of moments ago, the Foreign Office
:05:01. > :05:04.is also updating minute by minute its travel advice on its website. I
:05:05. > :05:08.took a look at it a moment or two ago and they are saying that people
:05:09. > :05:12.who are in Turkey should remain indoor, avoid gathering in public
:05:13. > :05:16.place, particularly where there are demonstrations and remain vigilant.
:05:17. > :05:19.You get a sense of the scale of what is happening with British Airways
:05:20. > :05:23.announcing today they have cancelled all flights in and out of Turkey
:05:24. > :05:29.today, and they will keep feature flights under review, with the
:05:30. > :05:32.summer holidays round the corner 2.5 million Brits visit first I can
:05:33. > :05:34.every year, a cause of real concern for me.
:05:35. > :05:38.Five people have been arrested in connection with the lorry attack
:05:39. > :05:42.The group calling itself Islamic State has claimed
:05:43. > :05:45.the Bastille Day attack was carried out by one of its followers.
:05:46. > :05:47.A state of emergency has been extended across France
:05:48. > :05:51.as the country begins three days of national mourning.
:05:52. > :06:05.Thank you. Well the police have opened one side of the promenade
:06:06. > :06:08.this morning and the police are behind us, preparing to do the same
:06:09. > :06:12.on the other side It is a remarkable earth when you consider yesterday
:06:13. > :06:17.they were carrying out forensic work on 84 victims and the lorry which
:06:18. > :06:20.finished 100 metres from where I am standing, the authorities say that
:06:21. > :06:23.is what they wanted to do. The best response is to get on with it as
:06:24. > :06:28.quickly as possible. The investigation continues as you say,
:06:29. > :06:32.five people are now in custody, linked to the driver Mohamed
:06:33. > :06:36.Bouhlel, more on that, our correspondent Tom Burridge. An
:06:37. > :06:40.apartment in central Nice where there was a lot of police activity
:06:41. > :06:47.this morning. Officers is arrested three people. And a car was taken
:06:48. > :06:51.from the scene. A further two people including the killers' ex-wife were
:06:52. > :06:57.taken in for questioning yesterday. A hug in this city, now has added
:06:58. > :07:02.meaning. The names of the victims are now emerging. As the horror of
:07:03. > :07:06.what happened on Nice's beach promenade sinks in. There is a sense
:07:07. > :07:11.of shock about the way this attack was carried out. About the number
:07:12. > :07:18.and the age of some of the victims. This time it was Nice, not Paris.
:07:19. > :07:23.France is left wondering when it will feel safe again.
:07:24. > :07:26.We met this woman here on Thursday night, with her two young children.
:07:27. > :07:31.Children. You are frightened for your children? Of course, I lost my
:07:32. > :07:40.daughter, I was running and she left my hand. I was so scared.
:07:41. > :07:46.The night is finished but I still see the pictures in my face. I don't
:07:47. > :07:50.know... The weapon on Thursday night, a lorry. The driver
:07:51. > :07:55.deliberately killing those in his path. The man behind the wheel was
:07:56. > :08:00.Mohamed Bouhlel, a French Tunisian who lived in Nice, previously known
:08:01. > :08:04.to the police for petty crimes, but not on the radar as a possible
:08:05. > :08:08.terrorist. The so-called Islamic State group
:08:09. > :08:12.have claimed responsibility for the attack. But they haven't produced
:08:13. > :08:19.any evidence of the link between him and them.
:08:20. > :08:23.But for now, tourists and locals alike feel disbelief, across France
:08:24. > :08:27.there is growing frustration, that the authorities appear unable to
:08:28. > :08:37.prevent senseless killing, on the streets again.
:08:38. > :08:40.This is a terrorist acts by anyone deefs in addition but it becomes
:08:41. > :08:44.more in the eyes of the French people, if there is a link with
:08:45. > :08:47.so-called Islamic State. He wasn't known to the intelligence agencies
:08:48. > :08:50.but there were documents and a mobile phone found in the cab of the
:08:51. > :08:54.truck which form part of the investigation, and he was known to
:08:55. > :08:57.police for theft and for violence against a fellow delivery driver
:08:58. > :09:03.earlier this year, also there is that link to Tunisia, his parents
:09:04. > :09:06.are from a place near to the resort city of Sousse where 30 Britons were
:09:07. > :09:11.killed over a year ago on the beach there. So they will look at all of
:09:12. > :09:14.that, and of course we know that Islamic State are claiming
:09:15. > :09:17.responsibility, we also know they have asked their followers to carry
:09:18. > :09:22.out things like this, we have to keep an open mind this could just be
:09:23. > :09:26.a very angry suicidal, lonely individual, who wanted to kill as
:09:27. > :09:30.many people as he could when he died himself.
:09:31. > :09:35.You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:09:36. > :09:38.The next news on BBC One is at 17.45.