Watch Turkey's president explain coup from his smartphone

Turkey's president has vowed to fight against the attempted military coup of the country, but was forced to give that vow in an interview from his smartphone.

"Those who attempt a coup will pay a heavy price in the courts," President Recep Erdogan said on Turkey's state national broadcast network TRT via FaceTime as a news anchor held up her iPhone.

He also called on Turkey's citizens to take to the streets to defend the current regime and promised that he would return to Ankara.

"I invite the public to go to the airports, go to the squares, go to the streets," he said. "They can come with their tanks and cannons. There's nothing more powerful than the people."

Erdogan gave the extraordinary interview as he struggles to maintain control of his country. On Friday, a group of Turkish military generals began a campaign to remove Erdogan from power.

The military claims they have taken control of the country and initiated the coup ""to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for the law and order to be reinstated," per Al Jazeera.

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