Turkish Foreign Ministry: Russia has provided us the greatest support during the coup

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called Russia a country, which has had the most support Turkey during an attempted military coup. "One of the countries that we had the most support, became Russia" - Cavusoglu said in an interview with Turkish television channel NTV. The role of other countries, he noted with skepticism in following phrase: "Message of support for democracy in Turkey was sent from many countries."

The Minister also noted that there were gaps in the national security system of Turkey. According to him, nothing but speculation about a coup attempt had to be known to the president from the outset.