Breaking!!! Turkey Parliament ‘evacuated due to imminent security threat’

Turkey: Turkish MPs were told to evacuate the Turkish parliament building in Ankara over an unspecified security threat, according to an opposition politician.

A member of the Peoples' Democracy Party Ziya Pir was quoted as saying:

"We have been informed of an attack. The Meclis is being evacuated."

The parliament building was one of the primary target bombed by rebels behind the failed coup attempt in Ankara on Friday July 16.


More than 300 people died and 1,500 others wounded during the clashes at the weekend which ended after rebel soldiers involved in the coup surrendered their weapons and handed themselves in.

This development comes as the United States and European Union on Monday severely warned Turkey to respect the rule of law after the Turkish government launched a massive crackdown on its arms forces.
Germany and the EU had also threatened that any move by Turkey to reinstate the death penalty for the coup plotters would obstruct Turkey’s EU membership bid.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in Brussels that Friday’s failed coup attempt was “no excuse” for extreme action, with Turkish authorities claiming to have arrested over 7,500 people and sacked more than 9,000.
John Kerry said;

“We will certainly support bringing the perpetrators of the coup to justice but we also caution against a reach that goes well beyond that.”

The EU and US “urge the government of Turkey to uphold the highest standards of respect for the nation’s democratic institutions and the rule of law”, he added.

Mogherini said EU foreign met that;

“rule of law has to be protected in the country, there is no excuse for any steps that take the country away from that”, adding that it was “for the sake of the country.”

EU commissioner Johannes Hahn told reporters it seemed that the government had already prepared a list of people to be rounded up before the coup..

“I mean, (that) the lists are available already after the event indicates that this was prepared and at a certain moment should be used.”