Turkey Coup Has Links To Mumbai Institutions: Turkish Envoy

He has urged that all institutions in Mumbai connected with the ‘terror’ network to be closed.

Following the attempted military coup in Turkey, President Erdogan has widened the purge on the army, targeting over 50,000. (Photo: AP)

In a fresh angle to the coup attempt in Turkey, the country’s consul general to India, Erdal Sabri Ergen, said the attempt on 15 July had connections to India. 

Ergen also sought the shutting down of institutions in Mumbai linked to the Fethullah “terror” network, which the government says is behind the coup attempt.

We have requested Indian and Maharashtra government that all institutions in Mumbai and elsewhere, connected with this network be closed. Everything connected with this network should be closed. They should be put under microscope. This is an illegal network with a sinister design in mind.

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When asked if Indian authorities were informed of Fethullah’s Mumbai connection, he said:

“Our communication with Maharashtra government is in parallel to what our Ambassador is doing in Delhi.”

He further added:

We have given a lot of documents and provided evidence. There are several such institutions in Mumbai and elsewhere in India. What clerics (in these institutions) provided was not positive message but a sinister message. The organisation network is damaging to Turkey.

The failed coup attempt had left 300 killed and more than 2,100 injured. In the mass arrest which followed the coup, at least 6,000 army personnel and judges were arrested.

Source: PTI