Detains: NATO coup generals, Turkey

Turkish 'coup generals

Kabul-based Turkish generals were detained at Dubai airport at Turkey's behest as Ankara's crackdown on journalists, servicemen and public servants allegedly involved in failed coup widens

Two senior Turkish generals serving in the NATO force in Afghanistan were detained at Dubai airport on suspicion of links to the attempt to overthrow Erdogan, an official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.


 Named  as Major General Mehmet Cahit Bakir, the commander of Turkey's task force in Afghanistan, and Brigadier General Sener Topuc.

In a separate development, police were searching a naval academy just outside Istanbul in a probe into coup plotters.

The attempted putsch of July 15 has sent shockwaves through all aspects of life in Turkey, with institutions from the police to Turkish Airlines and the media.

Some 13,000 people have been detained and over 9,000 of them remanded in custody ahead of trial over the coup, which the Turkish authorities blame on reclusive Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen

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