The military Council meeting was originally scheduled for the first week of August but was brought forward following the coup attempt. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Thursday chaired a top-level military meeting that is likely to lead to a major shake-up within the country's armed forces following a failed coup by renegade military officers. Gulen, who lives in the United States and runs a global network of schools and foundations, has repeatedly denied any knowledge of the coup attempt. The Supreme Military Council, gathering top commanders of NATO's second-largest army, met a day after Turkey discharged close to 1,700 officers — including 149 generals and admirals — suspected of involvement in the failed July 15 coup attempt. Yildirim, accompanied by the top brass, visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey's founder, before the council meeting, and vowed to overcome all terror threats.

Source: Fox News July 28, 2016 07:34 UTC