Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 20
By Orkhan Guluzade – Trend:
Legal Adviser to the Chief of Turkish General Staff, Major General Dincer Ural has been detained during a special operation against the Fethullah Gulen movement, Anadolu Agency reported Aug. 20.
Gulen is accused of organizing the July 15 military coup attempt in Turkey.
The report says that currently, Ural is being examined at the Prosecutor General’s Office.
After the attempted military coup, during the session of Turkey’s Supreme Military Council on July 28, Ural was awarded the rank of major general.
An Istanbul court ordered on Aug. 4 to arrest Fethullah Gulen.
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 had said 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.
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