Turkey endured very harsh tests in 2016. We overcame one of the toughest tests in history as a state and nation. The July 15 coup and civil war attempt was launched as a plan to totally eliminate this country. An outside organization, an intelligence network that infiltrated all the way into the most private areas of the system inside the country, became the Trojan horse of the heaviest attack against our country since the founding of the Republic. All the intelligence apparatuses they had been breeding in Turkey for the past 50 years were also activated at the same time.