Hotel room damaged during 2016 coup bid kept untouched in Aegean Türkiye

By Sabri Kesen

MUGLA, Türkiye (AA) - The traces have remained untouched over the past seven years since the assassination team of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) targeted the hotel where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was staying in Mugla, on the Aegean coast of Türkiye, on the night of July 15 coup bid in 2016.

The hotel in the Marmaris town, which sustained huge destruction, has not been repaired since then to expose how disgraced the coup plotters were when they attempted for a coup.

Footage taken by the Anadolu team shows parts of the hotel, which features the traces of the horrific attack. The hotel has never opened for accommodation since the day of defeated coup.

The president, who was vacationing in southwestern Mugla at that time, departed for Istanbul after he was alerted about the coup bid and narrowly escaped an armed attack on the hotel he was staying. The hotel came under a bomb attack 15 minutes after his departure.

During the night of the coup attempt, two police officers were killed at the scene of Erdogan’s hotel.

FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, in which 251 people were killed and 2,734 injured.

Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.