Turkey was riding high in 2010, casting its brand of Islamic piety, Western-style democracy and economic growth as a regional model amid popular upheavals in the Mideast and North Africa.
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Erdogan has been seeking to implement a new constitution that would replace the one that was adopted in 1981 following a military coup.
The statements came as Turkey and Russian Federation prepared for efforts to speed up the fix of frayed relations when Mr. Erdogan meets Vladimir Putin for talks in St. Petersburg next month.
The U.S. -based exiled cleric accused by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being behind Turkey’s attempted coup has accused the Turkish president of “turning a failed putsch into a slow-motion coup of his own against constitutional government”. The breach has cost Turkey an important source of tourists, and stalled energy deals.
Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Ankara said on Tuesday the State Department has authorized the voluntary departure of employees’ family members in Turkey after a failed military coup, Reuters reported.
Cook added that pro-government forces cut the base’s power supply to win back control of Incirlik from backers of the July 15 military coup attempt.
But the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Junker, has reacted strongly to the possibility, saying Turkey won’t be able to join the EU “for some time”.
Over 250,000 Turks reside in Austria, according to the official data. They included 45 newspapers, 16 television stations, 23 radio stations, three news agencies and 15 magazines. In his first such decree, Erdogan ordered the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and foundations with suspected links to Gulen. More than 50,000 government workers have been suspended or dismissed, with state-run Turkish Airlines firing an additional 100 people just over the weekend.
It’s a fight the Turkish government has taken all the way down to the local district level of American politics.
Earlier, Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said that his ministry had sent a document to Turkish authorities with security requirements that should be met for the resumption of charter flights.
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According to Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag, intelligence sources showed that Gulen, who has lived in Pennsylvania since 1999, was now planning to escape to a country without an extradition treaty with Turkey.
