It comes five days after an insurrection was launched by some military units before it was eventually quashed by loyalist protesters and security forces.
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The announcement followed long meetings of Turkey’s national security council and cabinet chaired by Erdogan at the presidential palace.
Turkey had in 2002 lifted its last state of emergency, which had been imposed in provinces in the southeast for the fight against Kurdish armed groups in 1987.
Kerry said on Thursday, that he made clear in several phone calls with Turkey’s foreign minister in recent days that mere allegations of wrongdoing against Fethullah Gulen would not meet USA extradition requirements.
Mr Erdogan said his administration was complying with Washington’s request to provide evidence of the cleric’s involvement in the coup, which United States officials have demanded before his deportation. At least 24 coup plotters were also killed.
Erdogan added that the state of emergency is a measure “against the terror threat facing our country”.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is calling on Turkey to provide hard evidence that a U.S. -based cleric was behind a foiled coup attempt last weekend if it wants him extradited.
The agency said the schools are linked to cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of Erdogan, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. Erdogan was in the Aegean resort of Marmaris when the coup struck and then flew to Istanbul where he had stayed since, appearing before supporters each night in a “vigil” for democracy.
The purge has raised concerns about basic freedoms and the effectiveness of key institutions.
About 10,000 people are accused of supporting the coup, and 50,000 or more accused of backing Gulen, Peter says. The Soviet Union is gone, of course, but the USA has now come to depend on Turkey, and its Incirlik airbase, in the war against the Islamic State.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the USA was watching those developments with caution but reiterated Washington’s support for the elected government.
The two allies cooperate in the USA -led war against the Islamic State group, with American military planes flying missions from Turkey’s Incirlik air base into neighboring Iraq and Syria. In a series of bombings over the past year, the Islamic State has done its best to destabilise Turkey, recognizing that this will vastly increase its freedom of maneuver in the region.
The lecturer, who is now overseas, said both local and global staff received a letter from the university saying they must report for work at 8.30am today.
Academics were banned from travelling overseas on Wednesday in what a Turkish official said was a temporary measure to prevent the risk of alleged coup plotters in universities from fleeing.
In other moves, Turkey demanded the resignations of 1,577 university deans and halted foreign assignments for state-employed academics. It also has targeted the news media, blocking 20 websites, revoking licensing from 25 media outlets and canceling the credentials of 34 journalists, according to Amnesty International.
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“There could be”, Erdogan said, asked if other countries could have been involved in the coup in an interview with Al-Jazeera.
