Turkish Brigadier General Mehmet Yalinalp speaks during an interview with Reuters in Brussels, Belgium, November 22, 2016. Picture taken November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A sacked Turkish general, wanted in connection with a failed coup attempt in July, has told Reuters in an interview that the government's purge of top commanders and pilots is inflicting deep long-term damage on the second-biggest army in NATO.
Mehmet Yalinalp, who was head of NATO's air command strategy in Germany at the time of the coup attempt, said he was fired a week later. He is one of hundreds of Turkish NATO officers to have been dismissed, some of whom have requested asylum in Europe.
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