Turkish Army has nothing in common with the military coup attempt, said the Acting Chief of General Staff Umit Dundar, TRT Haber news channel reported July 16.

Dundar said the army, the government and the Turkish people have been able to prevent the coup attempt together.

He also said that Turkish Armed Forces killed 104 servicemen, who intended to carry out the coup.

A coup attempt was launched in Turkey late on July 15 by a group of Turkish military servicemen.

There were reports saying that Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport was seized. Reports also indicated that 46 military men headed the attempt.

Later, Turkish officials announced that the attempt was foiled.

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Some 104 coup plotters were killed after an attempt to bring down the Turkish government, the acting army chief said on Saturday.

"The coup attempt has been foiled," General Umit Dundar said in televised appearance. He said 1,563 soldiers who had taken part in the coup had been arrested. The attempt came from sections of the Air Force, Gendarmerie and some "armoured elements", but insists it was rejected "from the start" by senior commanders.

He said that 90 people - 41 of them police and 47 are civilians - "fell martrys."

He also said many commanders were taken to "unknown locations" and that operations were ongoing to retake control of the military HQ in Ankara.

According to an official, police special forces and the military are securing the perimeter of the headquarters. "Shots were fired by a military officer from inside the walls earlier this morning," the official told Reuters.

He vows they will "wipe out" members of a "parallel structure" from within the ranks of the armed forces, which are one of the biggest in Nato.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meanwhile used Twitter to call on people to remain in the streets, warning against a new flare-up.

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