Kemal Kilicdaroglu

Millions of people have begun marking the first year anniversary of the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt in all 81 provinces, with people in Istanbul gathering on July 15 Martyrs Bridge, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said citizens had beaten well-equipped coup soldiers thanks to their belief. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has said that calling the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt a "controlled" one is a "denial of reason," in an apparent criticism to main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu's earlier remarks. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MİT) for "not giving sufficient information" regarding the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt.

Events will be held in Turkey later to mark the first anniversary of a failed coup in which at least 260 people died and 2,196 were wounded.

A faction of the army tried to seize power from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but the attempt collapsed.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy group leader Levent Gök has slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for "threatening" CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. 

"You will get into a state where you will not be able to step out," Erdoğan had said, referring to Kılıçdaroğlu's "justice march."

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has slammed a report prepared by a parliamentary commission inquiring the July 15, 2016, coup attempt for accusing the opposition party of working with and encouraging the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have orchestrated the attempted takeover. 

The aim of the opposition's "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul was to draw attention to shortcomings and errors in Turkey's justice system, to display the feelings of the people in the face of injustices.

But there were also other positive results of the march that were not calculated before it started. Let me mention a few of these unintended consequences.

"As always" my friend Zeynep said on the phone, tired but in an incredibly excited voice, "there is a bit of chaos here at the [main opposition Republican People's Party] CHP's final rally in Istanbul. But I have never seen anything like this before.

A bitter debate has broken out in Turkey over the number of participants at the "Justice Rally" held on July 9 in Istanbul's Maltepe district.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will send an abacus to the Istanbul Governor's Office in protest at its announcement that the "Justice Rally" on July 9 in Istanbul's Maltepe district was attended by only 175,000 people, CHP deputy Özgür Özel has said.