Full Coverage: Attempted coup in Turkey

Rebel commandos barged into an Aegean resort hotel with a key mission: capture Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The failure of an attempted military coup in Turkey, a NATO member and a key ally of the United States, was a welcome victory for democracy in a region with too little of it.

With tensions on the boil over Turkey’s demand for the handover of a Muslim cleric it blames for last weekend’s attempted military coup, President Obama telephoned the Turkish president Tuesday and assured him the U.S. does not support terrorists but will follow a lawful process before considering extradition.

The Turkish police officer boarded a crowded commuter bus heading toward Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul and snatched the keys from the driver, leaving him and the passengers in stunned silence.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday declared a three-month state of emergency following a failed coup attempt last week by dissident military officers.

The Turkish parliament approved a three-month state of emergency Thursday that allows the government to suspend some human rights and judicial protections as it hunts for suspects in the country’s military and other agencies with possible ties to last week’s attempted coup.

The recent coup attempt in Turkey came as a complete surprise to most observers.

In a third day of government purges after a failed military coup, Turkey on Monday suspended 9,000 Interior Ministry officials, drawing U.S. and European Union warnings for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to keep the crackdown within the boundaries of democracy.

As Greeks watched with concern the evolution of what became a failed military coup in neighboring Turkey, a lone Turkish Black Hawk helicopter appeared in Greek airspace.

The top military official at Incirlik Air Base has been arrested, along with other officers at the base — a major U.S. air operations center in the Middle East — in connection with an attempt by a military faction to overthrow the government of Turkey, authorities said Sunday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apparently put down a clumsy military coup, but the fallout, as he punishes those who challenged his government, will plunge Turkey’s domestic politics and its relations with the U.S. into new turmoil.

In the wake of Friday’s deadly coup attempt in Turkey, that country’s president quickly laid blame on Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who has lived in exile in eastern Pennsylvania since 1999 and controls a massive religious and educational movement.

Flights between Los Angeles International Airport and Istanbul have been suspended as a coup attempt plays out in Turkey, an airport spokeswoman said Saturday.

It is dawn and the streets of Ankara’s Kizilay district are empty, strewn with rubbish and glass.

The Turkish capital was rocked by violent clashes overnight as the government fought back against a military coup, but authorities said Saturday they had managed to stave off a rebellion that has plunged one of the United States’ most important NATO allies into chaos.

Kat Cohen was having a late dinner with her boyfriend at a restaurant atop Istanbul’s Marmara Taksim Hotel when word came that a coup was underway.

The sprawling nation of Turkey is one of the United States’ most important and critically strategic allies, straddling the divide between the Middle East and the West.

Prime Minister Erdogan blames the reclusive Islamic preacher in exile, leader of Hizmet, for the bitter political power struggle playing out in his homeland.