He said he wouldn't have returned to Turkey even if the coup had succeeded, fearing he would be "persecuted and harassed."
He said he wouldn't have returned to Turkey even if the coup had succeeded, fearing he would be "persecuted and harassed."
Late Saturday, the usually buzzing airport was eerily quiet with some stranded travelers sitting on the floors of the largely empty terminals
Government officials said the military coup appeared to have failed as Turks took to the streets overnight to take over the country.
"Wouldn't it be nice if we could go just one day without an attack or senseless killing around the world?," added Daniel Watson.
"My brother had psychological problems, and we have given the police documents showing that he had been seeing psychologists for several years," Rabeb Bouhlel, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel's sister, told Reuters.
The military staged three coups between 1960 and 1980 and pressured Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, a pious Muslim mentor of Erdogan who was disliked by Turkey's secular establishment, out of power in 1997
The Black Hawk chopper arrived after sending a distress signal to authorities at the airport in Alexandroupolis in the country's north.
Forces loyal to Turkey's government fought on Saturday to crush the last remnants of a military coup attempt. Television images late Friday had shown tanks parked in front of the airport.
The app, called SAIP, was launched by the interior ministry just before the Euro 2016 soccer championship and was supposed to flash a warning on a user's mobile phone screen if there was an attack close to their location or suspicion of an imminent strike.
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