ISTANBUL, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said here early Saturday that his holiday resort was bombed as soon as he left, vowing to finish the operation against coup plotters to keep the army "clean."
In televised remarks delivered soon after he landed at Istanbul Ataturk Airport, the president said the resort town of Marmaris in southwestern Turkey was bombed as the attackers thought he "was still there."
Erdogan vowed to finish the operation against the plotters in the military, saying "Our army is clean and no one can harm it."
He blamed the ongoing coup attempt in his country on the movement led by Turkey's Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen now living in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Ankara has been accusing the movement of running a parallel state and trying to topple the Turkish government.
"They are getting their order form Pensilvania," Erdogan said.
