US Embassy in Ankara first called coup ‘uprising,’ later ‘coup’
‘U.S. Embassy in Ankara at first described the failed coup attempt by a Gülenist fraction within the military as an “uprising,” and then changed to using the word “coup” to describe the events unfolding.
The U.S. Embassy in Ankara informed U.S. citizens about the failed Gülenist military coup with a message titled “Emergency message for U.S Citizens: Turkish Uprising.” The message, published on the embassy’s website and posted to the U.S. State Department Twitter account on July 16 at 2:53 a.m., said: “Shots fired and explosions have been heard in Ankara and both bridges in Istanbul, the Bosphorous and Fatih Sultan Mehmet, are now closed.”
The following day the message was removed from the embassy website, even though it remains available on the official Twitter account.’
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