![Interior Minister Soylu, middle, claims that EU was also enthusiastic over the coup attempt of 2016 [Murad Sezer/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/d81a0ede6a62491daf7616ff4e67119c_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
US State Department calls the accusation by Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu ‘unfounded and irresponsible’.
Turkey Attempted Coup
![Riot police officers stand at the entrance of a courthouse during the trial of 475 defendants, including generals and fighter jet pilots, in Sincan, Ankara [AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/AP_20331383936563-e1606404514139.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
In one of the biggest cases related to the plot to overthrow the government, 337 ex-pilots and others sentenced to life.
![Turkey's prisons are the most overcrowded in Europe, according to data from the Council of Europe [File: Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/b7b2e1c675a34908b4574e0577a3016e_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Some 45,000 to be freed until end of May, but politicians, journalists, critics jailed after 2016 coup not included.
![Anadolu says the latest police operation was coordinated from the city of Izmir and singled out people in 49 provinces [File: Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/9a4c9942805c4764bf8b68d4a5fafe14_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Ankara accuses US-based religious leader Fethullah Gulen’s network of masterminding a coup attempt in July 2016.
![Dahlan has been living in exile in the United Arab Emirates [File: Stringer/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/6920117303644868939c2b6c73e4eac4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Ankara puts Palestinian on most-wanted list, accuses exiled former Fatah official of involvement in 2016 coup attempt.
![Dahlan was expelled from Fatah's ruling body in 2011 on allegations of plotting to overthrow Abbas, and has been living in exile in the UAE since 2012 [File: Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/0340fe0dbe504e349409ac82243e5636_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Middle East Eye says the UAE-based ex-Fatah leader dropped the case hours before he was required to disclose documents.
![Simultaneous operations are ongoing in various provinces of Turkey to take the suspects into custody [File: Huseyin Aldemir/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/da78d5e080d0428599842664238dbc61_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Operations under way to arrest soldiers and civilians over alleged links to a network blamed for the 2016 coup attempt.
![Turkish state media says that the suspects include military personnel who are on active duty [File: Onur Coban/Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/8531365e72734dc7b2309db9e2284b09_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Arrest warrants issued for more than 150 suspects over alleged links to US-based cleric blamed for 2016 coup attempt.
![Turkey blames US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for spearheading the attempted coup in July 2016 [Anadolu]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/192ed401a642451d9908f769a0838c93_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Top former military officials accused of leading coup attempt in 2016 are each given 141 ‘aggravated’ life sentences.
![Turkey blames US-based Muslim scholar Fethullah Gulen for spearheading the attempted coup in July 2016 [File: Kenan Gurbuz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/737b6c262e6e4bc39ab81929968be0e9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The accused were charged with crimes against the state, attempting to kill the president, and the deaths of 249 people.
![Since the failed coup, Turkey has jailed more than 77,000 people on suspicion of links to the putsch [File: The Associated Press]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/74167ad067c849faa3fa6c9142721160_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
After years of criticism of a crackdown on dissident following a 2016 attempted coup, Erdogan announces reforms.
![Authorities have carried out regular operations against the alleged supporters of the 2016 coup attempt [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/9eee634dc77641c2bd6c5519c23e9bcd_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Serkan Golge was detained in 2016 on a visit to Turkey as Ankara cracked down on alleged supporters of a failed coup.
![Prosecutors in the capital Ankara issued arrest warrants for the suspects prior to operations in 42 provinces [File: Cem Turkel/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/9b381c1a7e06417eb5fdc721ce107c2f_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Warrants issued for past and present ministry employees for having alleged links to group blamed for 2016 coup attempt.
![Thomas Seibert, a Tagesspiegel reporter, is among the journalists whose accreditation was not renewed [Tagesspiegel]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/1435277b61594598bd28acbfbf6177da_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The decision to ban two senior journalists prompts protests from Berlin, which says the move is ‘incomprehensible’.