Russian expert on cleaning within Turkish Ministry of Internal  Affairs

ArmInfo. Regarding the events in Turkey: this does not look like a coup. This, rather, looks like an  internal showdown, a kind of "cleansing" within the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Thus, Russian political scientist, historian, expert on the problems of the Middle East, Semyon Bagdasarov, commented on reports of an attempt to carry out another coup in Turkey.

The expert recalled that some time ago a certain Ayhan Bora Kaplan  was detained in Turkey, who had good relations with the criminal  world and the former head of the country's Ministry of Internal  Affairs, Suleyman Soylu.

"After this, law enforcement officers received another tip and  arrested three more former leaders from Soylu's team," Bagdasarov  noted.

According to him, after this a process was launched, as a result of  which over 500 Turkish police officers were arrested.

"This doesn't look like a coup. There is no coup without an army. The  police, and even the criminals, don't carry out coups. This is part  of the showdown, after which they want to clear out some layer of the  Ministry of Internal Affairs and appoint their own people there. As  always, after this a "hand" appeared "the seriously ill 83-year-old  head of FETO Glen, and Mossad - so that the wrapper would be more  impressive," the political scientist believes.

"As for Britain," Bagdasarov continued, the head of MI6, Richard  Moore, is Erdogan's best friend, who speaks fluent Turkish and helps  him resolve many issues. Historically, Britain is Turkey's closest  ally at all times. they will not do anything bad to the Turks. I have  already said that it was after the Munich Security Conference, where  the meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Moore  took place, that the head of the Armenian Cabinet returned and began  to force a number of events against us," Bagdasarov noted, again  calling " Armenian Prime Minister as an agent of British and Turkish  intelligence."

He once again emphasized that there is a methodology for carrying out  coups that is not contained in what is happening today in Turkey.

Note that on May 15, Turkish authorities announced that high-ranking  police officers had entered into a conspiracy against the government.  It all started when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held an  emergency meeting late on May 14 with the head of the National  Intelligence Organization and the Minister of Justice to discuss an  alleged coup attempt in the country. The next day, the Minister of  Internal Affairs of the Republic, Ali Yerlikaya, issued a detailed  statement in which he admitted the existence of a conspiracy and  threatened to destroy the "traps" set by the conspirators and lure  the enemies of the government "from all the holes where they are  hiding."