Are you a Turkish president in hiding during a coup? There's an app for that

LONDON -  The president's address to a distraught nation in the midst of a surprise military coup was being interrupted, not by gunshots or protestors, but an incoming call. 

On Saturday at half-past-midnight, Nuh Yilmaz, press officer for Turkey's national intelligence agency, called CNN Türk anchor Hande Firat on her mobile phone. He didn't realize that he was interrupting a FaceTime call with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Moreover, he didn't know that the phone was being held up to a CNN studio camera in Ankara and broadcast around the world.

Firat's index finger could be seen awkwardly and repeatedly pressing her iPhone's menu button in the hope that Yilmaz's name would disappear from the screen. Read more...

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