Turkey parliament `evacuated due to imminent security threat`

  18 July 2016    Read: 1690
Turkey parliament `evacuated due to imminent security threat`
MPs have been told to evacuate the Turkish parliament building in Ankara over an unspecified security threat, according to an opposition politician.
The Cumhurriyet newspaper quoted the Peoples` Democracy Party member Ziya Pir as saying: "We have been informed of an attack. The Meclis is being evacuated."

The parliament building was among the public assets bombed by plotters during the coup attempt on the night of July 16.

A dramatic video captured by one MP showed the moment the first bomb hit while politicians were still in session, crashing through the roof into a courtyard.

More than 300 people died and some 1,500 people were injured in the clashes, which ended when soldiers involved in the coup gave up their weapons and handed themselves in.

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