Related Content Avoid Turkey, Government continues to warn travellers Photo Turkey coup: scenes from conflict You thought Erdogan was bad before? And Rear Adm. Hakan Ustem, commander of Turkish Coast Guard, was removed from his post, a senior Turkish official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the subject. "What we saw appears to show serious fracturing in Turkey's military," said Soner Cagaptay, director of Turkish research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Nearly 3 million war-weary Syrians have taken refuge in Turkey, a country of 75 million people. Arrest warrants have also been issued for at least 2,745 judges and prosecutors across the country, according to Turkish media reports.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 17, 2016 18:33 UTC