Affairs Minister Omer Celik recently sat down for an interview with The Washington Post. But after the attempted coup, we should be focusing on the agenda, on a positive agenda. What would have been much better is for our friends and allies, after the attempted coup, to come to Turkey, to visit Turkey to express their solidarity. Turkey’s closer relations with Russia are in no way a substitute for relations with the Western alliance. But when you think about what happened, 240 people died, thousands of people injured because of this brutal attack, attempted coup, staged by the Fethullah Terrorist Organization [ed.

Source: Washington Post September 21, 2016 23:49 UTC