“There will no longer be a presidential guard, there is no goal, there is no need”, Yildirim said, speaking to A Haber channel.
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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said that the presidential guard regiment will be disbanded, the Anadolu news agency said on Saturday citing the Turkish NTV channel.
Speaking to anti-coup protesters in the central Turkish province of Sivas on Sunday, National Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said: “We will operate these [public] schools which are owned by the state, the licenses of teachers who work there have been suspended, we will carry on education [services] with newcomers”.
The roundup of suspected coup plotters is not the only government response to the uprising.
Turkish authorities detained Gulen’s top aide Saturday, according to a source from the President’s office.
A state of emergency was declared on Wednesday, allowing the president and cabinet to bypass parliament when drafting new laws and to restrict or suspend rights and freedoms.
The presidential guard is a regiment numbering up to 2,500 people but at least 283 of its members had been detained after the coup.
The official said Hanci had apparently entered Turkey two days before the coup attempt.
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Gulen’s nephew, Muhammet Sait Gulen, was also detained, Anadolu reported. These include 15 universities, more than 934 schools, 109 dormitories, 1,125 associations, 19 unions and 35 health associations. The party opposed the coup attempt and supported Erdogan, but it voted against his state of emergency declaration.
