Around 200 Indian students in Turkey for a sports event are stranded after an attempted coup by sections of its military.
In a video message sent to Indian TV channels through WhatsApp, the students said they are in the north-eastern province of Trabzon for the 2016 World Schools Championship that began on July 11 and will end on July 18.
"Our parents called and told us, around three hours ago, that a bomb blast took place in the city of Ankara in Turkey. But there are no problems where we are which is Trabzon," a group of students from Tamil Nadu said in the video message.
The father of one the students told reporters that the students are around 400 km away from the location of unrest. Trabzon is over 700 km far from capital Ankara.
But there was uncertainty over whether the event would go on. "We have received no information so far," the students said.
The students who are scheduled to catch a flight back to New Delhi from Ankara on July 18 have requested the Central government for assistance.
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he is in control of the country today as loyal military and police forces quashed a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left nearly 200 people dead.
Mr. Erdogan, who flew home early today, said coup supporters "will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey."
The chaos capped a period of political turmoil in Turkey which critics blamed on Mr. Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule, which has included a government shake-up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast.
In a video message sent to Indian TV channels through WhatsApp, the students said they are in the north-eastern province of Trabzon for the 2016 World Schools Championship that began on July 11 and will end on July 18.
"Our parents called and told us, around three hours ago, that a bomb blast took place in the city of Ankara in Turkey. But there are no problems where we are which is Trabzon," a group of students from Tamil Nadu said in the video message.
The father of one the students told reporters that the students are around 400 km away from the location of unrest. Trabzon is over 700 km far from capital Ankara.
But there was uncertainty over whether the event would go on. "We have received no information so far," the students said.
The students who are scheduled to catch a flight back to New Delhi from Ankara on July 18 have requested the Central government for assistance.
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared he is in control of the country today as loyal military and police forces quashed a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left nearly 200 people dead.
Mr. Erdogan, who flew home early today, said coup supporters "will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey."
The chaos capped a period of political turmoil in Turkey which critics blamed on Mr. Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule, which has included a government shake-up, a crackdown on dissidents and opposition media and renewed conflict in the mainly Kurdish areas of the southeast.