DUBAI: Saudi authorities have detained the Turkish military attache to Kuwait for his suspected involvement in a failed coup against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, local media reported on Monday.
The attache, identified as Mikail Gullu, was arrested at an airport in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam as he attempted to board a flight to Germany, the reports said.
“Saudi authorities are holding the military attache for the Turkish embassy in Kuwait,” the kingdom’sAsharq Al-Awsat daily reported, quoting what it described as a foreign diplomatic source.