Turkey - Commencement and flag handover ceremony of the National Defence University Army War College 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech at the commencement and flag handover ceremony of the National Defence University Army War College. (Ankara, Turkey)
Drawing attention to the July 15 coup attempt, President Erdogan pointed out that following the most treacherous coup attempt of Turkey’s history, the war colleges, institutes and academies that raised military personnel for the Turkish Armed Forces were re-founded within the National Defence University, and added: “Thanks be to Allah, the students, who started their education at the first grade of the National Defence University when it was first opened, have today graduated. When we implemented this reform, some spread disinformation and claimed that we severed the veins of the Turkish military. However, today we see that we now have a much stronger, much more capable and much better-equipped military education system, let alone severing the veins of the Turkish military.”