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Post-Coup Purge Left 95% of Turkey’s Staff Officers Dismissed, Defense Official Confirms
A senior official from Turkey’s Ministry of National Defense has revealed that 95 percent of staff officers in the Turkish Armed Forces were dismissed in the aftermath of the July 15, 2016 coup attempt due to alleged links with the Gülen movement. The statement sheds new light on the ongoing personnel challenges within the military nearly a decade after the failed uprising. Lieutenant General Orhan Gürdal, Director General of Personnel, made the…
The funeral ceremony held in Germany for Muhammed Yakut, who lost his life in the Netherlands, also revealed the heartbreaking state of the Turkish media. Because the footage taken at Yakut’s funeral became a trending topic on social media. Almost all media outlets, including Cumhuriyet, Sözcü and Yenişafak, reported that one person who attended the funeral was Zekeriya Öz, the prosecutor of the December 17 investigation. For example, Yenişafak …
The footage taken at the funeral of Muhammed Yakut, who lost his life in the Netherlands, in Germany became a trending topic on social media. It was claimed that the name in the footage was former prosecutor Zekeriya Öz, who is a fugitive from FETÖ. The truth turned out to be different.
“After the July 15 coup attempt, 95 percent of the staff officers turned out to be FETÖ members, we expelled them”
Fugitive FETO member Öz attended the funeral of Yakut, nicknamed the Crazy of Crazy People, who became a trending topic with the videos he posted on social media.
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