Greece Warned Turkey Hours before the 2016 Coup Attempt

Date posted: July 18, 2020

Former military chief and defence minister Evangelos Apostolakis says Greece warned Turkey hours before the 2016 coup attempt after receiving information about plan.

If helps _ Here's machine translation of article featuring his remarks into Turkish (cannot tell if accurate) pic.twitter.com/R1OAgelqQc
— Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) July 16, 2020

English translation

And in English (only a little cleaned up) #Greece #Turkey pic.twitter.com/b5UfCvOyr8
— Derek Gatopoulos (@dgatopoulos) July 16, 2020

Source: Twitter , July 15, 2020

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