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The Grand Turk
‘Terrorism has no nationality, ethnicity nor religion. FETO threatens humanity as a whole’
2022-07-16
By Mevlut Cavusoglu, the incumbent Turkish foreign minister

[Rudaw] On the evening of July 15, 2016, the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization" (FETO) launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and the government of my country. Their aim was to establish a radical, fundamentalist regime, loyal only to their ringleader Fetullah Gulen.

As FETO affiliated army units left their barracks to occupy key locations, such as the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul and fighter jets and attack helicopters bombed strategic targets including the Parliament, Presidential compound, army and police headquarters; thousands of civilians erupted into the streets to stop this unprecedented heinous coup attempt. The plotters killed 251 innocent civilians and left thousands injured. On that night the Ottoman Turkish people defended democracy with their lives. This heroic response was something the conspirators did not foresee.
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