On Tuesday, two Turkish generals serving in Afghanistan and a former Istanbul governor were detained as part of the government crackdown.
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After meeting Russia’s energy minister on Tuesday, Economy Minister Nihat Zeybecki said: “We are open for construction of the first line of Turkish Stream”, state news agency Tass reported.
She has been detained as part of the investigation into the group of the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen who the Turkish authorities blame for the failed coup bid.
One of the journalists targeted by Monday’s arrest warrant is believed to be Fatih Yagmur, an investigative journalist who was sacked from his job at the now defunct Radikal daily in 2014 because of what his editors said was “very intense government pressure”.
Turkey has detained more than 13,000 people in the military, judiciary and other institutions in purges after the uprising by some military units on July 15 left about 290 people dead.
In the AP interview at his party’s headquarters, Kilicdaroglu cautioned that authorities should act within the law and pursue only those linked to the coup plot.
“It is impossible to find out if a journalist was involved in a serious way with the Gülen network or involved in the coup attempt by using such methods”, said Önderoglu, as five of the journalists were reportedly taken into custody for questioning. “If we go out of the norms of the law, then we are no different to the coup-plotters”.
An attempt to overthrow the Turkish government on July 15 by the country’s special forces, backed by the navy and air forces, failed. He said that he was briefly detained at the border for having missed the hearing of a trial against him on charges of insulting the president. The temptation to give Mr. Erdogan whatever he wants is understandable.
In his New York Times piece, Gulen accused Erdogan of turning “from democracy to despotism” in a “systematic and unsafe drive toward one-man rule”.
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Gulen said that despite his “unequivocal protest, similar to statements issued by all three of the major opposition parties (denouncing the coup), Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, immediately accused me of orchestrating the putsch”.
