Sputniknews reported that Turkey’s acting chief of staff general Umit Dundar has said that some 104 coup supporters were killed in Turkey. “The coup attempt has been foiled,” Dundar said in televised appearance, adding that 90 people ‘fell martyrs.’
Earlier in the day the Anadolu agency reported that the death toll has risen to 90 people following a military coup attempt in Turkey with some 1,154 wounded. Dundar noted that several high-ranking officers had been kidnapped by coup supporters, said Sputniknews.
“Anyone who betrays the country will not go unpunished,” Dundar added.
The acting chief ot the General Staff also said that the military coup attempt ‘was rejected by chain of command immideately.’
Members of Turkey’s armed forces on Friday night tried to stage a military coup. They began with a statement saying they had seized control of the country “to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for law and order to be reinstated.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday morning declared he is in control of the country.
More than 1,500 military personnel were arrested across the country after the coup attempt.
Turkey’s acting chief of the general staff says 1,563 soldiers have been arrested in the attempted military coup overnight.
The newly appointed Gen. Umit Dundar says those who took part in the betrayal will not go unpunished.
He says those who “sided with democracy and the rule of law” thwarted the attempt.
Dundar says Turkey’s military is determined to purge members of the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who is living in exile in Pennsylvania, from the ranks.
“Our people should have no concern, that the era of coups and juntas have come to a close, never to be opened again,” Dundar says.
AP reported Gen. Umit Dundar, the newly appointed acting chief of the general staff, as saying more than 190 people died in clashes: 41 police officers, two soldiers, 47 civilians and 104 people described as “coup plotters.”
Dundar said officers from the Air Force, the military police and the armored units were mainly involved in the attempt.
Umit Dundar had said on Saturday that the military is determined to purge members of the movement of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, from the ranks.
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