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Turkish Parliament Forms Commission to Investigate Failed Military Coup

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Turkish parliament on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of establishing a special committee to investigate the failed military coup, local media reported.

Policemen protect a soldier from the mob after troops involved in the coup surrendered on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 16, 2016. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The committee will include representatives of all four major political parties, the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the Daily Sabah newspaper reported.

The commission will be given the authority to question the suspects like prosecutors do.

On July 15, a coup attempt took place in Turkey and was suppressed the following day. Over 240 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured during the failed coup excluding the victims among the coup plotters, according to the country's authorities. More than 13,000 suspects have been detained.

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