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| Turkey parliament 'evacuated due to imminent security threat' | Turkey parliament 'evacuated due to imminent security threat' |
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| MPs have been told to evacuate the Turkish parliament building in Ankara over an unspecified security threat, according to an opposition politician. | 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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