On August 1, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that country's authorities were considering the possibility to restructure intelligence units.
"We are doing new efforts regarding MİT. Due to the developing communications technologies and world conditions, intelligence agencies should be renewed… July 15 showed us that protective measures and preventive intel are very significant. I wish that the coup attempt would be prevented even if we didn’t receive any intel. We will restructure the intelligence as domestic and foreign," Yildirım said, as quoted by the Hurriyet newspaper.
On July 15, an attempted coup took place in Turkey that was suppressed the following day. Following the coup, the Turkish authorities have removed thousands of officials, including intelligence officers from their posts across the country.
