Turkish coup: Irish model shares jarring IG video from Instanbul
News stations and media outlets were awash last night with coverage pertaining to an attempted military coup which began in Turkey yesterday.
In frightening scenes which played out across Ankara and Istanbul, soldiers and tanks took to the streets of Turkey's two main cities in a move which has thus far left 90 people dead and hundreds more injured.
With Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, calling on his public to support him, the coup appeared to crumble in the early hours of Saturday morning as crowds took to the streets in an act of defiance against soldiers who had assumed positions around both cities and claimed to have taken power.
While caught up in the chaos which ensued as a result of the attempted coup, Limerick model, Judy Fitzgerald, took to Instagram to give an insight into events unfolding in Instanbul.
Sharing footage of a busy street in Istanbul eight hours ago, Judy wrote: "The government has fallin and has been taken over by the military here in Istanbul." (sic)
The short clip shows a stream of armed officials making their way through the city followed by chanting groups – all of whom were being filmed by stunned onlookers on the pavement.
"Airports and everything have been shut. What is the world coming too?" she wrote alongside a series of hastags.
At last estimate, 745 individuals had been detained following last night's violence and 130 soldiers have so far been arrested, with President Erdrogen last night asserting: "What is being perpetrated is a treason and a rebellion. They will pay a heavy price for this act of treason."
