ANKARA – Details of an assassination plot against Turkish President RecepTayyip Erdogan reportedly planned to be carried out during the leader’svisit to Bosnia and Herzegovina came to light on Saturday, accordingto *Turkey’s Anadolu statenews agency,* reported The New Arab.link>

According to the agency, Turkish intelligence confirmed reports that aTurkish group planned to assassinate the Prime Minister during his visit tothe Balkans on Sunday. Security services reportedly received intelligencefrom Turkish citizens living in the Macedonian capital of Skopje.

Western intelligence services had also passed on information related to theplanned assassination to Turkey. Turkish authorities are investigatingthe matter, but gave no further details on the alleged plot.

Turkish government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that Erdogan’strip to Bosnia would continue as planned, adding that the President “is notafraid and does not run away from causes he believes in”.

Erdogan is set to hold a rally in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo onSunday, almost one month before Turkey heads to the polls to vote in thegeneral election on June 24.

If re-elected, new laws will be enacted that would expand Erdogan’spresidential powers, that he claims is in the interest of “streamlining”the political system, however detractors claim is a slide towardsauthoritarianism.

The Turkish strongman has several groups fiercely opposed to hisleadership, most notably the country’s Kurdish minority,whose PKK Kurdistan Workers’ Party have been leading a separatistinsurgency since 1984.