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After a Turkish military helicopter landed in Greece Saturday after sending a distress signal, the Turkish goverment demanded the prompt return of eight ‘treacherous officers’ on board the aircraft.
The eight were arrested in Greece for entering the country illegaly and were identified as two majors, a captain and five privates by Anadolu Agency, a state-run news organization.
After landing on Greek soil, they requested political asylum and Greek officials said they would consider the request. The officials also said they would return the helicopter to Turkey "as soon as possible."
The coup attempt was swift and came as a surprise to allies in the region. Forces loyal to Erdogan put down the coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire.
Erdogan vowed that those responsible "will pay a heavy price for their treason."
NTV television aired footage of a Turkish colonel and other soldiers being taken into custody at military headquarters.
The video shows them being hand-searched by special forces police, their hands behind their heads. Some are later seen kneeling on the ground, their hands still held behind their heads.
According to Hurriyet newspaper's online edition, some of the privates who were detained told interrogators they were not aware that they were part of a coup attempt. They had been told by commanders they were taking part in military maneuvers. Some said they understood that it was a coup attempt when they saw civilians climb on tanks.
Military chief of staff Gen. Hulusi Akar was overseeing is taking the operation against the coup plotters, CNN-Turk said.
The coup attempt began late Friday, with a statement from the military saying it had seized control "to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for law and order to be reinstated."
Fighter jets buzzed overhead, gunfire erupted outside military headquarters and vehicles blocked two major bridges in Istanbul. Soldiers backed by tanks blocked entry to Istanbul's airport for a couple of hours before being overtaken by pro-government crowds carrying Turkish flags, according to footage broadcast by the Dogan news agency.
But the military did not appear unified, as top commanders went on television to condemn the action and order troops back to their barracks.
Fighting continued into the early morning, with the sounds of huge blasts echoing across Istanbul and the capital, Ankara, including at least one bomb that hit the parliament complex. Television footage showed images of broken glass and other debris strewn across a lobby leading to the assembly hall.
In Washington, a statement from the White House said President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed that both sides "should support the democratically elected government of Turkey, show restraint and avoid any violence or bloodshed."
A senior Defense Department official told Fox News that the unrest was having "no impact" on anti-ISIS missions flown out of Incirlik Air Base in southeastern Turkey.
Soldiers with tanks in Ankara streets. F16s are flying around 1000 feet very close to buildings. pic.twitter.com/QoBtvPs246 — Ahmet S Yayla (@ahmetsyayla) July 15, 2016
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg issued a statement calling for "calm and restraint, and full respect for Turkey's democratic institutions and its constitution."
Leaders of Turkey's religious communities have released a joint statement condemning the attempted coup. The statement from representatives of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities declares "our great sorrow over the terrorist attacks that disturb the peace of our great nation and of the world."
Erdogan made his way to the Ataturk airport early Saturday and spoke to the crowds that gathered to greet him.
"They have pointed the people's guns against the people. The president, whom 52 percent of the people brought to power, is in charge. This government brought to power by the people is in charge. They won't succeed as long as we stand against them by risking everything."
Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson and the Associated Press contributed to this report. A FoxNews.com correspondent in Istanbul contributed to this report<|endoftext|>Saturday, 4th December 1926. A green Morris Cowley lies with its bull nose buried in bushes at the end of a dirt track near Guildford. The police issue a description of the missing owner: “Aged 35, height 5ft 7in, hair reddish and shingled, eyes grey, complexion fair. Well-built, dressed in grey and dark grey cardigan, small green velour hat, wearing a platinum ring with one pearl, but no wedding ring.”
In 1926, Agatha Christie was the author of six detective novels. Today, she is a major 20th-century writer in whom scholarship has shown barely a flicker of interest: a literary giant hidden in plain sight. Her 11-day vanishing act, however, has kept her visible to biographers and film-makers. Michael Apted’s Agatha (1979) has her disoriented by electroconvulsive therapy. Jared Cade’s Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (1999) contends that she staged her disappearance to embarrass her adulterous husband. A 2008 episode of Doctor Who depicts her traumatised after encountering a giant wasp that has emerged from the birth canal of Felicity Kendal. On Sunday night, David Suchet – TV’s Poirot – will use ITV’s Perspectives series to offer the most obvious observation it is possible to make about the business: that Christie’s vanishing resembles something from her own fiction.
Suchet’s film takes a traditional line: an anxious Agatha booked into a hotel in Harrogate seeking respite from her poisoned marriage. “I imagine most of us have got to the stage where you can’t think straight anymore,” he says. “I know I have.” As the Queen of Crime remained silent about her disappearance, we may have exhausted what can be said about it. Its meaning as a public event, however, remains an open field – and a fact mentioned in passing by Suchet strikes me as particularly interesting.
There were those, it seems, who believed that the whole affair was a publicity stunt. While Christie recuperated in Las Palmas, Parliamentary questions were asked about the cost of the investigation into her disappearance. The Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, put the total at £12 10s. The answer did not satisfy William Lunn, Labour MP for Rothwell. “Who,” he inquired, “is going to compensate the thousands of people who were deliberately misled by this cruel hoax?” No answer was forthcoming. A fortnight later, however, Joynson-Hicks revised the figure, claiming the investigation had cost nothing.
Why, you might wonder, was Christie’s disappearance a potential political controversy? It helps to know the history of those in the frame. William Lunn was a former pit-boy who represented a mining constituency. He believed in the nationalisation of the coal industry, the railways and the banks – and that a General Strike might help to secure those aims. Joynson-Hicks was his political opposite: a vehement anti-Bolshevist who believed that the General Strike of May 1926 was a plot hatched in Moscow.
Though it is little read today, one of Christie’s most popular books of this period was The Secret Adversary (1922), a thriller about a Russian conspiracy to plunge England into anarchy by persuading the Labour Party to support a General Strike. By the end, the enemy within is cowed: “Straggling processions, singing the Red Flag, wandered through the streets in a more or less aimless manner,” writes Christie. “The Labour leaders were forced to admit that they had been used as a catspaw.” It’s hard to imagine a work more attuned to Joynson-Hicks’s sensibility.
The sentiment, however, would have nauseated William Lunn – who may have sensed an opportunity for political advantage when, after a pointless police search, the author of The Secret Adversary turned up in a hotel twenty miles from his West Yorkshire constituency. This Parliamentary exchange, I suspect, is really a debate about not one but two events of 1926: Christie’s eleven days in December and the nine days in May for which the General Strike endured.
We don’t think of Christie as a political author. Perhaps we should. Her views, though, may not make for cosy Sunday viewing. The buzz of anti-Semitism is loud in her fiction of the 1920s, with its references to “Hebraic people” and “yellow-faced financiers” – and this is more than the thoughtless transmission of cultural background noise. Christopher Hitchens, who had dinner chez Christie in the Sixties, recalled “the anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice. It was vividly unpleasant.” Should a mainstream documentary ever be brave enough to tackle this job, they should recall Suchet. Who would be better qualified than the son of a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant; a man who has spent a quarter of a century waxing Poirot’s moustache? Then, perhaps, we might solve the real mystery of Agatha Christie – how her work became so ubiquitous, and so unexamined.
Perspectives: The Mystery of Agatha Christie is on ITV on Sunday 17 March at 10.00pm<|endoftext|>2017 Dylan Samberg came to the Winnipeg Jets from the United States High School system, specifically the vaunted Minnesota league. The problem is it is incredibly hard to tell how good Samberg is because high school hockey, no matter how highly thought of the league is, is still high school sports. That said, Samberg has some interesting tools that make him an intriguing prospect. He was over a point-per-game last year with his high school team. He finished the season with the Waterloo Blackhawks of the USHL, but only played in six games so it is impossible to draw any conclusions from those games.
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Tim:
Dylan Samberg is a giant question mark. This is due in large part to the fact that he was drafted out of the USHS - a league that supplies relatively few NHLers. That being said, there is a lot to like about Samberg. He's big, he skates very well and his game is notably dynamic. Samberg has a real shot of making team USA at this year's World Juniour Hockey Championships. He is definitely raw, but there is some real upside here.
Andy:
Samberg is Stanley Light. A long term project, Samberg has caught the attention of USA Hockey, and will be playing his first season with Univ. of Minnesota-Duluth. His enthusiasm and curiosity for the game has me also labelling him a "Schiefele brother from another mother". Time will tell.<|endoftext|>Yikes! You’ve fallen into the rabbit hole of real estate; you have negative cash flow properties. The ultimate goal of an investment property is to create the opposite, to have positive cash flow properties. In simple terms, a positive cash flow is when you are earning more than you are spending on a property. A negative cash flow is when your rental income is lower than the cost of your expenses. But hey, if you do have negative cash flow on a property, it’s not the end of the world. Here are some ways to deal with negative cash flow properties.
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Try a Different Rental Strategy
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