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Friday, July 22, 2016
Kremlin has no data that Russia reportedly warned Turkey of imminent military coup

Kremlin has no data that Russia reportedly warned Turkey of imminent
military coup
Iranian Fars News Agency (FNA) reported earlier that Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan had reportedly received from Russia a warning about an
imminent military coup hours before it was initiated
July 21, 2016 13:10 UTC+3
http://tass.ru/en/politics/889724

MOSCOW, July 21. /TASS/. The Kremlin has no information that Russia
reportedly warned Turkey of an imminent military coup, presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

"I don’t have such information and I don’t know the sources, to which the
news agency Fars is referring," Peskov told journalists, commenting on media
reports.

Iranian Fars News Agency (FNA) reported on Wednesday that Turkish President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan had received a warning from Russia about an imminent
military coup just hours before it was initiated.

The news agency referred to several Arab media outlets quoting diplomats
from Ankara who said that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization
"received intel from its Russian counterpart that warned of an impending
coup".

The warning was based on the data that the Russian military in the region
had received intercepting "highly sensitive army exchanges and encoded radio
messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup," Fars
said.

In particular, the Turkish military reportedly discussed plans to dispatch
several army helicopters to the hotel (in Marmaris) where Erdogan stayed to
arrest or kill him, the news agency said.

"The diplomats were not sure of the Russian station that had intercepted the
exchanges, but said the Russian army intelligence unit deployed in Hmeymim
in Syria's northern province of Latakia is reportedly equipped with
state-of-the-art electronic and eavesdropping systems to gather highly
sensitive information," Fars said.

The Kremlin spokesman has also commented on the imposition of a state of
emergency in Turkey.

"This is an internal affair of Turkey," Peskov said when asked to comment on
Ankara’s recent decision.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that the state
of emergency will be imposed in the country for three months following a
failed military coup attempt. This will provide an opportunity "to promptly
respond to actions of different terrorist organizations," Erdogan said.

Coup attempt in Turkey

A group of insurgents attempted a coup in Turkey overnight to July 17. Bombs
were dropped on the parliament building and the presidential palace in
Ankara. The country’s leadership later said that the coup was quashed.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the situation is under the
control of the official government.

According to latest reports, about 190 civilians and 100 putschists died and
nearly 1,500 more people were injured. Over 6,000 people were arrested after
a failed coup attempt. Over 7,500 people were detained on suspicion of
involvement into the coup attempt. Among them are two presidential
adjutants, 100 policemen, 6,038 servicemen and 755 judges and prosecutors.

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