Mehmet Metiner, former deputy of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has said some Turkish ministers and security officials were informed about a possible putsch 15 to 20 days before a controversial coup attempt took place in Turkey on July 15, 2016 but that they did not take it seriously.
Metiner, a columnist for the pro-government Star daily, was a deputy in parliament during the previous legislative term and a strong advocate of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“If the necessary lessons are not taken and this mental accounting is not crystallized as the new term’s policy, new [coup attempts] at various times will become inevitable,” he wrote in a column for Star on Thursday.
“If the country’s intelligence service was unable to get timely information about a coup attempt, if the army’s top management couldn’t recognize the existence of traitors nearby, then we need to think.”
He is not the only former AKP deputy to question the official story of the coup attempt, with Şamil Tayyar, a former legislator, also making controversial remarks on the putsch.
Right after a parliamentary commission report on the coup attempt was published in May 2017, Tayyar tweeted that “apparently we have to wait for the real story of July 15.”
In September 2017 Tayyar also said that if light were to be shed on the coup attempt people might realize that the “heroes” were “traitors” and vice versa.
Turkey survived a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement.
Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.
Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants since July 15. On December 13, 2017 the Justice Ministry announced that 169,013 people have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on April 18, 2018 that the Turkish government had jailed 77,081 people between July 15, 2016 and April 11, 2018 over alleged links to the Gülen movement. (SCF with turkishminute.com)
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