16/07/2016 BBC Weekend News

The prime minister of Turkey has described an attempted coup

overnight as a "black stain" on Turkish democracy.

Beenali Yuhlduh-ruhm said the country was now under control

and that nearly 3000 soldiers had been arrested.

many of them civilians - were killed during the violence

World leaders have condemned the attempted coup.

The Foreign Office is advising British people in Turkey

It's as they did there are 50,000 Britons on holiday there.

Our correspondent Katy Watson reports from Istanbul.

Less than 12 hours after the attempted coup began, soldiers

surrendered. Walking from tanks with hands above their heads. Equipment

abandoned in the chaos. Last night the parliament building in Ankara

became the focal point of the violence. The country's president

took to video messaging, urging people to come onto the streets to

oppose what was happening. And so they did. This was the Bosporus

Bridge in Istanbul. The rebel soldiers stood firm against

protesters loyal to Mr Erdogan. Some mounted the tanks, grabbing guns

from soldiers hands. This man went down to the bridge with his pregnant

wife commit showed me the photos of the tanks and the crowds, it was at

times very tense. Army members were really brutal, they were sending

bombs to be bought from tanks, they were passing by from the people and

my friends, who were on the bridge, on the Bosporus Bridge, they were

getting shot. This morning the bridge was reopened, the reminders

of last night's action removed from sight. Life here may be starting to

return to normal and the government says it has things under control,

but it's still asking people to remain on the streets in protest

under all of this is over. The Prime Minister has condemned what

happened. TRANSLATION: What happened on the night of 15th July is a black

stain on Turkish democracy. The people who attacked the civilians

with the bombs, tanks, planes helicopters of the state are worse

than the PKK terrorists. More than two and a half million Brits visit

Turkey every year. Those currently in the country has been told to stay

indoors. The new Foreign Secretary said the UK remains very concerned

about the situation. We're working very hard, as you can imagine, to do

the best for the many Brits who are there, the many people there on

holiday, and they should follow the travel advice and we'll do our best

to update you as soon as we can. Meanwhile, flights in and out of the

country are a chaotic. Some have been cancelled, others diverted,

until the situation is clear. Katy Watson, BBC News, Istanbul.

Our correspondent Selin Gerit is in Istanbul -

do we know who is behind the attempted coup?

Details are still emerging about who these coup plotters were. A

high-ranking general has already been arrested and a further 22

generals have been detained. Around 3000 soldiers are detained as of

now. And the government blames them of being linked to the temporary

macro movement. He is a cleric in Pennsylvania in the US, he is to be

on good terms, friends, with President Erdogan himself. -- link

to the Fethullah Gulen. Fethullah Gulen and their supporters deny any

sort of involvement with the coup attempt taking place last night. The

Turkish parliament convened in an extraordinary session today and the

Prime Minister thanked all the opposition parties for their

solidarity, for their support of the government. The Prime Minister cold

this a threshold moment, but whether this traumatic night and day in

Turkey will bring the divided, the polarised political spectrum

together, is yet to be seen. Five people have been arrested

in connection with the lorry attack The group calling itself

Islamic State says the Bastille Day attack was carried out by one

of its followers. Clive. Kate. This nation has now

embarked on three days of mourning. That began today. The thoroughfare

along which that lorry caused so much pain and have it is now

partially reopened. Life is slowly beginning to return to normal.

Meanwhile investigators are trying to piece together the life and

connections of the killer, Mohammad Khalil. Arrests have been made today

and a detailed search of his apartment here in Nice continues.

Meanwhile the Islamic State group are claiming him as one of their

own. With the very latest on the investigation, here is Lucy

Williamson. What makes a local man turn

on his community and kill? This is where Mohamed Bouhlel

planned his attack, this quiet block of flats

on the outskirts of Nice. A blue patterned towel still hanging

from the Inside, a neighbour showed us

where he lived, alone after his French officials say

he was probably radicalised, but Yasmin told us he'd

shown no sign of it. TRANSLATION: Not at all,

he drank alcohol, I saw him,

during Ramadan, with a young woman, Yasmin's 14-year-old daughter rang

her from the promenade on Thursday, Not knowing she was running

from the man who lived upstairs. The promenade here has now reopened

and the brutal reminders

of what happened are fading under But this attack left France

with some uncomfortable questions, like, why does

this keep happening? Committed jihadists or just

isolated, angry residents from every Police are questioning

five people and so-called Islamic State has claimed

responsibility for the attack. But France's interior minister says

this appears to be a new, much Much harder for the

authorities to predict. The far right leader Marine Le Pen

quickly took to social media And it has the means

to defend itself. But because its leaders are puny

they don't know how to do

this, or even want to. France's leaders say

More than 50 people including five children are in hospital in critical

condition after the attack. In all it's thought to be around ten

children and teenagers who died. Many, many more are injured and have

been psychologically damaged. One thing you notice here, the scores

and scores of families turning up to leave floral tributes, little

messages, so many of the makeshift shrines that have sprung up around

the waterfront here, so many mothers and fathers are bringing their own

children in memory of the little ones who died.

She leaves behind a family consumed with grief, including two children.

She was killed trying to save a little one, he says, she pulled him

towards her, but was hit by the truck. She died in ten minutes on

the way to hospital, that's all I can say. The children, now

motherless, are traumatised. Many families take their children to the

shrines to pay their respects. It's a harrowing detail of the attack

that the killer could see he was hitting youngsters. Davies,

teenagers. Five children are still fighting for their lives in

hospital. It is of course the psychological trauma of the terrible

events of Bastille night that will be difficult to heal. For those

children who survived, the work begins now to stop a lifetime of

painful memories. We offer psychological reassurance, try to

contain the emotions, because I think we can't completely stop them.

In mother just now asked me if I had some kind of magic pill. Of course

not. Words are all we have. Claire and her family, from eastern France,

flew into Nice the day after the attack. They are one holiday. But

the tragedy is a lesson in life for her daughter and two sons. They must

understand our world is changing. I hope it will change for the best.

It's important for them their world is changing, but they mustn't be

afraid. Bastille Day will always represent the moment the people of

France won their freedom. Now it will also represent the murderer of

correction macro because of the actions of one man the day terror

came to Nice. Increased security presence is all around here in Nice,

soldiers patrol some of the key buildings, the state of emergency

has been extended. The big question is, when will the people here,

people across France in this nation ever be able to let their guard

down? With that, Kate, it's back to you.

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