Turkey to hold Supreme Military Council meeting

  27 July 2016    Read: 1198
Turkey to hold Supreme Military Council meeting
A meeting of the Turkish Supreme Military Council will be held in the country July 28, the Turkish TRT Haber TV channel reported July 28.
According to the message, Binali Yildirim, Turkish prime minister, and Hulusi Akar, chief of General Staff of the country’s armed forces, will attend the meeting.

A military coup attempt and reforms in the Turkish security structures will be the main topics of the meeting, the message said.

“This will be the first meeting of the Supreme Military Council after the coup attempt in Turkey,” the message said.

On July 15 evening, Turkish authorities said a military coup attempt took place in the country. Meanwhile, a group of servicemen announced about transition of power to them.

However, the rebelling servicemen started to surrender July 16 and Turkish authorities said the coup attempt failed.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246 people excluding the coup plotters and over 2,000 people were wounded.

President Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in the country on July 20.

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