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July 15, 20165:23 PM ET
GREG MYRE
REBECCA HERSHER





Updated at 8:30 p.m. ET

As military vehicles rumbled through the streets of Ankara, members of Turkey's military said Friday night they had seized control of the country, ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated the country for more than a decade.

The dramatic development plunged one of the region's most important countries into a major crisis. Television footage showed civilians coming into the streets in many places, with some waving red-and-white Turkish flags. However, it was not clear who was supporting the coup and who was opposing it.

Erdogan had been on vacation at the Black Sea, but his exact whereabouts were not immediately clear. The Turkish president â€" who has censored social media â€" did appear via FaceTime video on the CNN Turk network and called on the Turkish people to resist the military action.