Turkey said Monday that 103 generals and admirals had been detained for questioning across the country over the failed coup attempt. A total of 41 of the detained, high-ranking soldiers were jailed pending trial. The commander of the 2nd Army, Gen. Adem Huduti, and its executive officer and Malatya Garrison commander, Maj. Gen. Avni Angun, were among the arrested ranking generals. Former Air Force Commander Gen. Ak\u0131n Ozturk, who has been described as the ringleader of the foiled uprising, was also arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Law enforcement officers initiated an inspection at a southern Turkey air base, a key spot from where the US-based coalition is conducting operations against the Islamic State group’s strongholds in Syria. Brig. Gen. Bekir Ercan, the commander of the Incirlik Air Base, was arrested on charges of involvement in the coup attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry said it suspended 8,777 officials after the coup attempt. The suspended personnel include 7,899 police officers, 614 gendarmerie officers, 30 provincial governors and 47 district governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turkish special forces personnel guard the entrance to the Ankara Courthouse where a hearing for generals and military personnel involved in Friday’s failed coup attempt was taking place July 18, 2016, in Ankara, Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Chris McGrath\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said that the arrests would continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This is a major earthquake within the military,” a\u00a0senior security official said. “It will take a long time before everything goes back to normal. In the meantime, we will take every measure to make sure there will not be any operational weaknesses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the NATO diplomat was not so optimistic. “It is inevitable that there will be operational weaknesses including against ISIL,” he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One procurement official said that in the aftermath of the attempted coup, procurement is “nowhere in the military command’s priority list.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I am not sure how soon we’ll be able to discuss [procurement] programs with them [the military],” the official said. “But I am sure it will take some time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n One military official with a portfolio of aerospace programs declined to comment on the matter, saying: “This is not time to discuss procurement.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the attempted coup began to show signs of failure,\u00a0police and rival troops reciprocated and most pro-coup officers and troops were arrested by the afternoon on July 16.\u00a0President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and government officials claim that the coup attempt was organized by Fethullah Gulen, a powerful Muslim cleric and Erdogan’s staunchest political ally until 2013 when the two broke up in a power-sharing struggle. Since then, Gulen has been Erdogan’s biggest political nemesis. The president claims those loyal to the cleric\u00a0have infiltrated the state bureaucracy, including the top ranks of the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ankara has demanded Gulen’s extradition from his reclusive headquarters in Pennsylvania, claiming that the cleric runs a terror group that aims to topple Turkey’s elected government. Washington has said that it would assess any evidence linking Gulen with the coup attempt or terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One procurement official said that in the aftermath of the attempted coup, procurement is \u201cnowhere in the military command\u2019s priority list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":114013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":19,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[33,19],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3466],"class_list":["post-52983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-pentagon"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"T376RGYNL5CJTFZFUJ2AVPQKGM","arc_canonical_url":"\/pentagon\/2016\/07\/19\/turkish-procurement-programs-at-risk-of-delay-following-attempted-coup\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/636045178730507040-gettyimages-576864990jpg.jpg\")