Peace at Home Council

Peace at Home Council
Yurtta Sulh Konseyi
Country	Turkey
Leader(s)	Akın Öztürk (alleged)
Foundation	15 July 2016
Dissolved	16 July 2016
Active region(s)	Ankara
Ideology	Kemalism (stated) Gülenism (Turkish government claim)
Major actions	2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt
Status	Self-declared Government of Turkey Alleged links with Gülen movement
Size	37 committee members Real size unknown

The Peace at Home Council (Turkish: Yurtta Sulh Konseyi), alternatively called the Peace Council, claimed to be an executive body that led a coup attempt in Turkey starting on 15 July 2016 and ended on 16 July 2016. The name was made public in a statement read on air during the 15 July 2016 temporary takeover by soldiers of the headquarters of Turkish state broadcaster TRT. The group was supposedly formed within the Turkish Armed Forces. It was declared to be the governing council of Turkey during the coup attempt. The creation of the Council was announced by Tijen Karaş, a news anchor at the state-owned TRT news channel, allegedly at gunpoint.

The name "Peace at Home Council" "is derived from Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's famous saying 'Peace at Home, Peace in the World'". Although it was declared as the successor to the incumbent 65th government of Turkey, the failure of the coup attempt meant that the Council never took de facto power in the country.

The formation of the Council and its dismissal of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government was announced live on the state broadcaster TRT after soldiers took over the channel's broadcasting headquarters. The stated aims of the Council were "to reinstate constitutional order, human rights and freedoms, the rule of law and general security that was damaged". No set information regarding members and structure of the Council were given and TRT suspended broadcasting shortly after the delivery of the statement announcing the Council's creation.

The statement that was read on air at TRT headquarters, said (in Turkish) that

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