The Turkish authorities detained more than 100 generals after a coup attempt

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Власти Турции задержали более 100 генералов после попытки госпереворота

The Turkish authorities detained more than 100 generals and admirals after the coup attempt. As reported by Agence France-Presse, about half of them have already been arrested by the court. They are charged with “coup attempt”, assassination of the President ” and “murder people”.

Thus, the Turkish armed forces have lost about a third of senior officers, before the rebellion there were about 350 generals and admirals.

According to the latest data, all were about 6 thousand people. In addition, from posts released about 8 thousand police officers, including senior officers.

Nevertheless, the government believes that the threat to the current government still exists. “Today, the coup attempt was foiled, but we can’t say with certainty that the threat to the current government is no more, – said the Minister of national defence Fikri. We ask the residents of Istanbul to listen to the statements of President erdoğan and stay on the streets until then, until he says that you can return to the house.”

In the night from 15 to 16 July, a group of soldiers made an unsuccessful attempt to seize power in Turkey. The clashes killed 290 people, and 1440 were injured.

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