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Turkey to Disband Presidential Guard After Attempted Coup – Prime Minister

Sputnik News

01:57 24.07.2016

ANKARA (Sputnik) – Turkey is going to disband the presidential guard after an attempted coup, local media reported citing Yildirim.

"There will no presidential guard any more, there is no purpose, there is no need," Yildirim told A Haber TV-channel.

Turkish authorities arrested about 300 members of the presidential guard after the attempted coup.

The coup attempt took place in Turkey on July 15 and was suppressed by the following day. Some 246 people resisting the attempted coup were killed and around 2,000 were injured, according to the country's authorities.

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