Turkey coup attempt
Saturday
16
July
2016
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• Government to consider death penalty for coup plotters
• An estimated 160 dead and 2,840 military arrested
• Up to 47 civilians killed in fighting
• Top general and judge detained
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Coups used to be a feature of Turkish politics but had not occurred since 1997. Now government wrestles with fallout of failed putsch
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Cleric who leads global Hizmet movement from exile in Pennyslvania, US, is a critic of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and remains influential in Turkish affairs
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For the last three years, the Turkish president has been methodically moving to take over the nodes of power
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Interior minister appeals for calm and unity after Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Bastille Day assault on French soil
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This page will be updated as details emerge about those confirmed to have been killed in the Bastille Day truck attack
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Father of truck driver who committed atrocity said he was violent as a boy but showed no jihadi tendencies
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headlines
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Who is the man behind the bombastic, egoistical public persona? Exactly the same, say those who know him. His rise from real estate to reality TV to presidential candidate is testament to the power of positive thinking
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The ‘28 pages’ suggest larger connection between al-Qaida and Saudi royal family than previously reported as $89,000 was deposited to family of suspected spy
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highlights
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The original comic is inescapably kinky – but the empowered superhero ushering in the matriarchy with a lasso is not the same as one whose skirt has blown up
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The musician, 68, on Woodstock, being discriminated against at school and making people cry with one note
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Director Justin Lin applauds performance by CEO, who is a passionate Star Trek fan: ‘He just nailed it every time’
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With the Republican convention taking place in Cleveland, local artists aim to remind delegates of the city’s history of police brutality and racial segregation
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Hole-by-hole report: Join Scott Murray on moving day at The Open as Phil Mickelson begins the round with a one-shot lead
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Les Carpenter: The UFC just might have the best drug-testing program in sports – but the rash of failed tests around UFC 200 shows credibility comes at a price
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Mark Cavendish has won stage 14 of the Tour de France, his fourth stage victory of this year’s race and the 30th of his career
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The José Mourinho era at Manchester United began with a comfortable victory, with goals from Will Keane and Andreas Pereira settling a low-key friendly
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Obama says Black Lives Matter. But he doesn't ensure they do
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The CEO bias: why more people trust Trump with the economy than Clinton
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Trump’s VP pick to be featured guest at billionaires’ donor network event, giving him chance to press for financial backing for presumptive nominee they detest
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Shannon Sullivan tweeted photo of sign telling workers how to respond to questions on alligators at park, after two-year-old’s death
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Datta Phuge, who ordered a shirt made from 14,000 pieces of 22-carat gold in 2013, was reportedly attacked by 12 assailants
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Celebrity whose risque online videos angered country’s religious conservatives was victim of apparent ‘honour’ killing
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in brief
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This sitcom about two warring white men trying to take down their black, female boss revels in politically incorrect humor but has a mean streak a mile wide
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Traditional ways of tackling insomnia are largely useless, says Oliver Burkeman, but this is different
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‘A firefighter emerged with Tink draped over his arm. I assumed she was dead. He put an oxygen mask on her and incredibly, she took a breath and coughed’
in depth
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It’s been widely discredited as unethical and ineffective, yet ex-gay therapy is seeing a resurgence across the US
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Unchon Ramos has kickstarted an American tea farming revolution right from her farm in Virginia – but growers say the industry is still in ‘the wild west’ stage of development
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Donald Trump’s supposed running mate – Indiana governor Mike Pence – has been picked for two reasons: he’s too boring to upstage the boss and, naturally, he’s incredibly rightwing
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It has only taken a week for Pokémon Go’s creatures to pop up all around the planet – but their journey really began in 1996
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The main man of the Jason Bourne movies would make a very strange Robin, but there are plenty of other superpowered stars in the DC Comics firmament
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More than four decades after she appeared in a Los Angeles County welfare office, her fate is unclear – but she has changed the lives of those who knew her
in pictures
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The Bastille Day attack, the attempted coup in Turkey, the reaction to the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Serena Williams at Wimbledon – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
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Amid a climate of fundamentalism and fear, photographer Peter Sanders shows how integrated Muslims and non-Muslims can be
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They live in London, but come from all around the world: every nationality contained within a single city. Can one Magnum photographer turn his camera on them all?
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Old Masters paintings wildly reimagined to create an unhinged tableaux of colour, energy and spirituality
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Whether for safety, art or celebration, pedestrian crossings in cities around the world have been transformed with colourful or unusual designs – from rainbows and piano keyboards to french fries and bullets
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The winners in the third annual drone photography awards have been announced
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Dougie Wallace spent four years photographing the drivers and passengers of Mumbai’s Premier Padmini taxis – which are now an endangered species
what to watch
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Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart give excellent performances as an on-the-make New Yorker and the woman he falls in love with in Allen’s likable romance
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Set in a future world where emotions are banned and relationships outlawed, Drake Doremus’ venture into science-fiction falls flat
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HBO’s new show challenges notions about race, religion and class in relation to the US justice system but it isn’t as radical as it might have been
people
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The director reveals why he’s driven by fear, how he beat his bullies - and the heartbreak behind his take on The BFG
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Britney’s new tune, plus Katy Perry’s Olympic anthem, confirm that the days of frantic BPM are truly over and a more mellow tempo is taking over the charts
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They’re both tattooed, left massive boybands and they’re both into aliens – what is it with northern British pop stars and their extraterrestrial preoccupations?
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Rapper and producer tells Radio 1’s Annie Mac that she will continue to make music but forthcoming record AIM will be her final studio release
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the big picture
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A Bengal tiger with her cubs, osprey chicks and a forest lit up by thousands of fireflies are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Aftermath of Turkey coup attempt will be bloody and repressive