Erdogan told ARD that Turkish voters want the death penalty brought back, stating that “if we are in a democratic state of law, then the people decide”. “We can’t say ‘no, that doesn’t interest us'”.
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The country’s Deputy Prime Minister, Mehmet Simsek, told journalists that Turkey wants to “make relations with Russian Federation even better than they were before November 24”.
A total of 13,165 people have been detained in connection with the foiled coup attempt in Turkey, President Erdogan said on Sunday.
The Turkish embassy in the US on Monday demanded an apology from a major USA news network for an “utterly unacceptable” and “false” report regarding a recent coup attempt in Turkey, Anadolu Agency reports.
A bridge over the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul – which saw some of the fiercest fighting – is to be renamed July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge after the victims of the failed coup bid, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
Earlier the leaders of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Presidential Palace.
The gendarmes and coast guard, which were under the command of the Turkish armed forces, would now report to the civilian interior ministry, Yildirim told reporters.
Erdogan’s comments follow the 15 July coup attempt and a subsequent purge that has seen thousands of teachers, judges, prosecutors, military and other civil servants dismissed or detained.
Mr Gulen, who lives in the USA, has strongly denied any involvement. The cleric, who has lived in self-imposed exile there since 1999, says the coup may have been orchestrated by Erdogan.
Major General Mehmet Cahit Bakir, the commander of Turkey’s task force in Afghanistan, and Brigadier General Sener Topuc were detained at Dubai airport, said the official, who asked not to be named.
During the recent attempt to overthrow the government in Turkey horror stories about Turkish Airlines unable to assist passenger during this period circled the media world.
During a speech to the Turkish parliament, Erdogan called Gulen, his former ally, a “dishonest traitor”.
Turkey’s opposition leader warned Tuesday against a government witch hunt following Turkey’s failed coup, saying it would cast a shadow on the democracy that those who opposed the insurrection tried to protect.
Rights group Amnesty International said it had received credible evidence of detainees being subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, since the coup attempt.
Yildirim said another 1,491 people were also wounded, while over 100 coup plotters were killed.
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Critics have stated that Erdogan might have taken advantage of the failed coup to conduct indiscriminate law enforcement over dissidents; such is the case of rape and torture abuses that have been reported so far to global organizations. He described Gulen’s network as “like a cancer” and said he would treat them like a “separatist terrorist organization” and root them out, wherever they may be.
