Relating to the state of emergency declared by Turkish government after the coup attempt, the ambassador said that the recent temporary law is only to fight against terrorism in an effective manner.
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In a speech at his presidential palace late Friday remembering those killed during the failed coup, Erdogan angrily denounced the criticism and accused the West of deserting Turkey in its hour of need.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH’-jehp TY’-ihp UR’-doh-wahn) lashed out at the U.S. Friday and criticized a senior military commander who had expressed concerns that the coup could have longer-term impact on U.S. relations with the Turkish military.
The dishonourable discharges included around 40 percent of Turkey’s admirals and generals.
The IFJ said it and the European Federation of Journalists were calling on the EU “to take additional steps to hold Turkish President Erdogan accountable for press freedom breaches”.
“Some people give us advice”.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey has succeeded in eradicating all elements linked to Gulen from the military after sacking almost half of its generals following the failed coup.
Turkey’s president has insisted that Fetullah Gulen, a Turkish Islamic scholar who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, was behind the failed military coup.
“You are taking the side of coup plotters instead of thanking this state for defeating the coup attempt”, he said.
Describing FETO’s bloody coup attempt as “quite concerning”, Hall said he hoped that Gulen would be extradited to Turkey.
Germany’s integration commissioner Aydan Ozoguz underlined Erdogan’s influence, saying: “I am seeing with concern that the relationships of people living here with Turkey are being massively exploited politically”.
Some say numerous media affected by the current crackdown backed purges against other sectors in the past.
In Germany, the governor of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said his regional government received a letter from the Turkish consul-general in Stuttgart asking it to check and “reevaluate” organizations, facilities and schools “which in the opinion of the Turkish government are, it says, “controlled” by the Gulen movement”.
“When tens of thousands of civil servants, teachers and judges are dismissed, thousands of schools and education facilities shut and dozens of journalists arrested without any direct connection with the coup being discernible, we can not simply stay silent”, Frank-Walter Steinmeier was quoted as saying Friday in the Ruhr Nachrichten paper.
Authorities have issued warrants for the detention of 89 journalists. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced Thursday that 88 employees of his ministry have lost their jobs, including two ambassadors.
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Erdogan, who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup, told Reuters in an interview last week that the military, NATO’S second biggest, needed “fresh blood”. He said several army barracks used in the attempted coup would be moved away from Ankara and Istanbul to new locations.
