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Turkey has reportedly banned Islamic funerals for dead coup supporters and warned imams not to carry out the ceremonies.

Hundreds of people were killed in the apparent attempted coup last Friday which was crushed by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Religious Affairs Directorate announced today that imams would not lead prayers for “pro-coup soldiers who targeted our nation”.

The state directly employees all of Turkey's 75,000 imams.

Around 20 alleged coup supporters were killed during fighting. Around 240 other people also died in the violence, including 145 civilians.

It comes as the government launches a massive purge of suspected coup supporters in the education, police, military and political establishments, with thousands rounded up and arrested.

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Turkey has meanwhile issued a warning to Greece over Athens' decision to let eight alleged coup plotters helicopter into the country.

The officers were permitted to land at Alexandropoulis Airport following the botched attempt to overthrow the Government.

Turkey’s ambassador to Greece, Kerim Uras, reportedly threatened that “bilateral relations would be damaged if Greece does not extradite the 8 Turkish military personnel.”

During a press conference with members of the Greek media he added: “Greece should not given landing permission to Turkish helicopter, it should not have even allowed it to enter Greek FIR.”

It comes after the Turkish Government moved to sack tens of thousands of teachers and university academics it believes are sympathisers with the plotters behind last Friday's coup attempt.

Critics of the Government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan have claimed that the 'coup' was either initiated by the state or allowed to happen in order to be used as mandate for purging the country of opponents of the president.

Meanwhile, footage has been released of the sickening moment Turkey coup protesters were incinerated in an airstrike outside the presidential palace.

Dozens of people can be seen making their way towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's residence in the grainy footage before there's a massive explosion.

The area where protesters could be seen only moments before then becomes a huge inferno and only thick, black smoke can be seen.

A car, which could be seen parked on the left of the screen, is left a burnt out shell as flames fill the wreckage and debris is seen strewn across the pavement.

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The video was allegedly filmed in the early hours of Saturday morning during the failed military coup in Ankara as an airstrike hit close to the palace.

The brutality of the attempted takeover, when soldiers commandeered fighter jets, military helicopters and tanks in a bid to seize power, has gradually been emerging in video and pictures captured on cellphones during the chaos.

Throughout the night of July 15, terrified Turks in Istanbul and Ankara listened to sporadic gunfire, explosions and the sonic booms of low-flying jets over their apartment blocks, rattling buildings and blowing out windows.

In a country whose last violent military coup was more than three decades ago, few could believe what was happening, let alone how high the death toll would reach.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 232 people were killed, 145 of them civilians.

Blurred photos and shaky videos posted on Twitter and YouTube, increasingly circulated in the days after the attempted coup, hint at how so many died so quickly.

One of the deadliest places for civilians was near the presidential palace, where hundreds of supporters heeded his call to fill the streets and squares.

Government officials have also been sharing the phone footage, citing it as evidence of the brutality of a coup bid they blame on Erdogan's arch-rival Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric they accuse of trying to establish a "parallel state" with his followers in the judiciary and security forces.

"When Fethullah Gulen said, 'May fire rain down', it turns out he was talking about Cobra helicopters firing on civilians!" tweeted a user under the handle @BorsaStrateji.

Gulen has denied involvement in the plot and suggested it may have been staged in order to justify a crackdown by Erdogan on members of his religious movement, who define themselves as conservative Muslims who believe in the importance of education and charity.

They deny charges of acting against the state.

A Twitter account that opened within hours of the bungled intervention, called Failed Coup Facts, posted a security video that depicts a helicopter gunship strafing a road with electric-blue cannon fire near the headquarters of the national intelligence agency, narrowly missing moving cars.

Agents fruitlessly shoot back with rifles and handguns.

The account posted another video showing a tank in Ankara running over protesters who were initially trying to block its path but then attempted to escape to the side of the road.

At least three people are killed in the footage, including one man who is disembowelled.

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