Turkey’s government reasserted control Saturday after crushing a coup attempt that plunged the nation into turmoil and left at least 265 people dead.
A night of chaos and death gave way to a morning of mostly peaceful streets and tough talk from Turkey’s bellicose leaders.
“These are not soldiers,” Turkish Prime Minster Binali Yildirim said in an address to parliament. “They are ravenous terrorist butchers in uniforms.”
Yildirim said government forces rounded up nearly 2,900 renegade military personnel.
The acting military chief, Gen. Umit Dundar, announced that the dead included 104 coup plotters. The others were civilians and police officers killed in skirmishes with the rebel soldiers, Dundar said.
At least 1,440 people were wounded.
The sudden insurrection got underway Friday night with soldiers seizing control of two bridges in Istanbul and fighter jets buzzed the capital of Ankara.
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