Baku, Azerbaijan, July 29
By Orkhan Quluzade – Trend:
The passports of 49,211 citizens were cancelled as part of investigating a military coup attempt in Turkey, Efka Ala, Turkish interior minister, said, Hurriyet newspaper wrote July 29.
The minister added that the number of detainees in connection with the coup attempt reached 18,000 people, 9,677 of them were arrested.
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.