In a Friday phone call, President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry “agreed that all parties in Turkey should support the democratically elected Government of Turkey, show restraint, and avoid any violence or bloodshed,” the White House says. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reportedly fled the country amid a military coup that began Friday night and is growing bloodier by the hour, with military forces firing on police and an F-16 shot down a helicopter full of “coup plotters.”
