Since the July 15 coup attempt, the government has arrested almost 10,000 people.
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“People demand the death penalty and that demand will surely be assessed”.
“When the world looks at how bad the United States is and then we go and talk about civil liberties, I don’t think we’re a very good messenger”, Trump said in an interview with the New York Times published Thursday. It is used by US -led coalition jets fighting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
Turkish lawmakers approved a three-month state of emergency, endorsing new powers for Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a crackdown on his suspected followers, more than 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended, detained or placed under investigation.
Gulen has denied any involvement in the failed coup, but Turkey’s government is demanding the United States extradite him.
Erdogan said the government’s Supreme Military Council, which is chaired by the prime minister, and includes the defense minister and the chief of staff, would oversee the restructuring of the armed forces.
He said no one was allowed to be disrespectful to the Turkish President as he represented the nation and if someone did such a thing, the law would take its course.
When an attempted military coup roiled Turkey on July 15, Brian Silverstein was in Turkey to give a keynote address related to his research, conduct fieldwork, and visit family. “I told it to the head of national intelligence”.
Authorities imposed a state of emergency on Thursday, strengthening powers to round up suspects behind the failed putsch and suspending the European Convention on Human Rights. A group of 10 people attacked Santa Maria Church with paving stones and hammers to smash the windows and attempted to break in until Muslims in the neighborhood stopped them and drove them away. Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci said on Friday it will end in 40 days if possible.
Germany expressed concern about the rule of law in Turkey, saying photos and television footage indicated that some people detained in the wake of the failed coup appeared to have been mistreated. “Any Christian leader, if they’re being honest, would say that some of what’s going on is quite alarming”.
“We can’t discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is”, he said.
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The state of emergency was backed by 346 members of the 550-seat parliament in Ankara, indicating that the government – which holds 316 votes – got at least some support from opposition parties. The envoy said that the decision would empower the government to ask people to surrender their arms which can be returned to them later or the authorities could conduct search anywhere on the basis of suspicion. Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base is a key point of departure for United States airstrikes and drone operations, and as the power outage following the coup continued, Pentagon officials began to express concern about keeping up the pace of missions relying on power supplied from a generator. They were taken to police headquarters for questioning, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
