Number of servicemen who fled from Turkey after coup attempt revealed

  09 August 2016    Read: 778
Number of servicemen who fled from Turkey after coup attempt revealed
After the attempted military coup in Turkey, 216 servicemen fled from the country, TRT Haber news channel quoted Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus as saying Aug. 8.
Kurtulmus said that nine of the servicemen, who fled from the country, are generals.

The deputy prime minister also noted that currently, the work is being carried out to identify the whereabouts of the servicemen.

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.

Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in Turkey on July 20.

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