Arab media outlets have reported that Turkey’s President Erdogan was alerted by Russia against an imminent army coup just hours before it was started. Also reported that Erdogan asked his supporters to go into and remain in the streets after receiving advice from Tehran.
It was reported that the Russian army intelligence units deployed in Syria’s Northern province equipped with state-of-the-art electronic and eavesdropping systems to gather highly sensitive information in the region had intercepted Turkish army exchanges and encoded radio messages showing that the Turkish army was readying to stage a coup against Erdogan.
The intercepted exchanges included dispatch of several army choppers to President Erdogan’s resort hotel to arrest or kill the president. One Arab media outlet said because of this the coup plotters started the operation ahead of time than they had previously planned to launch the coup. Erdogan has said he escaped death just by minutes.
Then only a few days after the coup, Erdogan appeared on the media saying that he plans to declare a crucial turn in foreign policy that would “end differences with Turkey’s neighboring states.”
Additionally, he also accused the source of the coup as coming from a cleric in the United States and tensions have remained high between the U.S. and Turkey since.