Turkish authorities on Saturday said they had foiled a plot to blow up the deputy chairman of the ruling party with hundreds of kilos of explosives buried under a graveyard close to his family cemetery plot. Attempted coup in Turkey – in pictures Read moreEker, a former minister of agriculture who is from the Diyarbakir region, is one of the most prominent members of Turkey’s Kurdish minority in the AKP elite. He told NTV television he had been making the cemetery visit for 30 years and at least 100 people were planning to join him on Sunday. Along with me, over 100 people would be targeted,” he said, insisting he would still go ahead with the cemetery visit. Turkey accuses Gulen of running a “terror group” working to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Source: The Guardian September 11, 2016 01:18 UTC