Turkey disbanding presidential guard after failed coup
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has announced the disbanding of the country’s presidential guard following the recent failed coup.
"There will not be any presidential guard as we do not need it anymore," told Turkey’s A Haber TV channel on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, authorities arrested 283 members of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s guard over alleged affiliation to failed coup.
Turkey has launched a large-scale crackdown following the July 15 attempted coup d’état. A three-month state of emergency has also been declared in Turkey.
Meanwhile, the key aid of US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen (seen below), who Erdogan blames for the coup attempt, has been arrested. According to a source in the Turkish presidential office, Halis Hanci arrived in Turkey two days before the coup.
Turkish security forces also arrested Gulen’s nephew, Muhammad Saitd Gulen, in the northeastern city of Erzurum.
It is the first time a relative of Gulen has been reported detained since the coup attempt.
Erdogan accuses Gulen, who has many followers in Turkey and abroad, of masterminding last Friday’s failed coup, in which at least 246 people were killed and more than 2,100 others sustained injuries. Gulen denies the charge and has condemned the coup.
Tens of thousands of soldiers, security officers, judges, prosecutors, civil servants and academics suspected of ties to the Gulen movement have been detained or suspended from their jobs following the putsch.
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