MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Anadolu agency, officers at the check points were instructed to increase the level of security.
Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other officials have blamed Turkish opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters for the coup attempt.
Late Friday night, the Turkish government came under siege by a faction of military forces who sought to end the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan citing the leader's drift away from the country's long-held secularist values.
