The German’s BND foreign Intelligence Agency has come up with a revelation that the July 15, 2016 military coup attempt in Turkey was staged by part of the country’s military that feared the mass purge by the government of President Recep Tayyip Edorgan.
The German spy agent stressed: “the coup attempt was not initiated by the government. Before July 15, the government had already started a big purge, so part of the military thought they should do a coup quickly before it (the purge) hit them too.”
In a report publish in German magazine, Der Spiegel, the spy agent also said that the Turkish government had failed to convince its operatives that a U.S based Turkish Cleric, Fethullah Gulen was behind the failed coup.
According BND head, Bruno Kahl: “Turkey has tried to convince us of that at every level, but so far, it has not succeeded.”
President Edorgan and the Turkish government had accused Gulen of orchestrating Turkey’s failed coup of July 15 in which more than 240 people were killed when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, warplanes and helicopters to attack parliament and attempted to overthrow the government.
President Edorgan and Turkish government had tried to convince the United States to extradite Gulen, who denied involvement in the coup attempt.
Speaking during his inauguration as new President of the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND), at the Chancellery in Berlin, the Germany capital, Bruno Kahl said that Gulen movement was not extremist or terrorist group, explaining: “it is a civil association that aims to provide further religious and secular solutions.” [myad]
