ANKARA (Sputnik) – All Turkish military schools will be closed and a national defense university will be established on their basis, country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Saturday.
"Military schools will be closed, this will be published in the official newspaper Resmi Gazete within several days. They will be united under the University of National Defense," Erdogan told in an interview with the A Haber broadcaster.
On July 15, an attempt to overthrow the government took place in Turkey, it was suppressed the following day. Over 240 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured during the failed coup excluding the victims among the plotters, according to the country's authorities.
Almost 9,000 military were detained after the attempted coup, according to country’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.
