He has to play this role; he is not the type to give up easily!

refers to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BClen_movement

Reuters reporting explosions at the TRT media building and gunfire.

Well with martial law proclaimed he can claim all he wants... If this goes through it'll be interesting to see if the police get purged by a lot, since Erdogan multiplied their numbers by at least 4 during his reign.

Plus we're just getting pictures from Istanbul and I suppose, Ankara. Wonder what's happening in the rest of this rather large country?

Ironic
Isn't Erdogan the one who uses tear gas and water cannon and worse on peaceful demonstrators

you're not expecting him to make sense all of a sudden, are you?

Erdogan doesn't want them to be peaceful today...

Erdogan is apparently in Marmaris... Just a short ferry ride to Rhodos.

Ironic considering how he cracked down on social media; now it is claimed he is using the Facetime video messaging app on his Iphone - hope he has his battery charger with him!

The guy on aljazeera keeps calling it an attack on democracy .... which I guess it is and at the same time is it?

no, I hope he doesn't!

The army spokesman too declared the putsch is to save democracy and human rights... a question of perspective, I guess. (source is a German newsfeed, Frankfurter Allgemeine and Spiegelonline mainly at the moment).

The BBC didn't wait long to pick a side:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-13746679

Seeing as Erdogan and acolytes consider democracy thus:

"Democracy is like a train, you get on it, and when you're where you want to be, you get off"

I think it's about keeping the train on the rails and throwing off those with expired tickets.

Meanwhile, if Abe or Obama want to help, they should get Nintendo, Google & Apple to unleash Pokemon Go in Turkey ASAP. Like Now. That'll a) change the mood b) distract massively c) put so many out in the streets that have nothing to do with what's happening it'll make protests meaningless unless weapons.

Well done Turkey! Stray away from the founding principles of Ataturk and this is what you get. Here's to a prosperous future

Erdogan will claim, all Pokemon-hunters are on his side. Although that might draw a true picture I'm not sure I'm in favour of that.

I haven't heard of any of our 1st-row politicians an appeal to bring Erdogan back to power.
The silence is deafening.

Listen to Iranian radio...

Hmmm, right. Ban Ki Moon called for calm (not clear who should stay calm) and the United Nations "follow the happenings attentively".

But to be honest, I'm also still not absolutely sure what to think of this. Part of the military is doing this but where are the people who support them? So far it seems only the pro Erdogan people are in the streets (and male only, I keep searching for woman in the pictures on tv). To keep up some kind of decomcracy, shouldn't the people go out there and win this?