THIS is the bizarre moment a flying sofa soared through the air as stunned onlookers watched on.
Residents of Ankara, Turkey, were dumbfounded as the furniture flashed past their windows after toppling off the balcony of a 35-storey block of flats.
A clip captured by local man Onur Kalmaz shows the sofa hurtling towards the ground at speed after being launched off the terrace.
The dark shape swirled briefly in the sky before plunging downwards, landing between two buildings.
Strong winds have been a feature of the powerful storms sweeping Turkey, which caused the three-seater to take flight.
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Onur told The Metro: "No one was hurt, but we were pretty scared."
The sofa reportedly crashed into a number of the buildings in the area before landing safely in someone's garden.
It comes after the country's capital was battered by gusts that have upended roofs, ripped trees out of the ground and left at least one person injured.
Ankara's mayor Mansur Yavas took to social media to warn residents to take care amid the storms, which have brought a risk of flash flooding.
It comes as Turkey is gripped by its tightest election campaign in nearly a decade as both President Erdogan and his main rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu failed to reach the 50 per cent threshold necessary to win outright.
A run-off vote has now been scheduled for May 28.
However, the uncertainty around the result has destabilised the national economy, with the Lira falling against the Dollar and the central bank's currency and gold reserves plunging by £17 billion in the run-up to the election.
