Turkey wants Washington to extradite Gulen, who was once a close ally of Erdogan and now an archfoe.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Turkey to show proportionality in its pursuit of those behind the failed coup.
Erdogan, who made the comments in an interview with broadcaster A Haber, said Turkey’s military academies would be replaced by a national defence university. General Votel responded saying that he was not involved in any attempted coup in Turkey and any information citing he was is inaccurate.
He hinted the United States could be behind the failed plot.
The Government has said the coup was staged by a faction within the military loyal to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. “No state would allow such a threat to remain in its midst”.
Erdogan said he planned to thin the numbers of the gendarmerie security forces widely used in the fight against Kurdish militants in the southeast, although he said they would become more effective with better weaponry and he promised to continue the fight against Kurdish insurgents. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246 people excluding the coup plotters and over 2,000 people were wounded. The authorities say such closures target only Gulenists, though some journalists detained are known for left-wing secular views and do not share the Gulenists’ religious outlook.
Cavusoglu said those detained in the media were not “real journalists”.
While I am of the opinion that since the coup attempt the measures taken have been disproportionate, I need (to see) black-and-white facts about how these people are treated.
The latest purges have now spread from state institutions, academia and the media to the world of private business.
He and the two other executives-Sukru and Halit Boydak-were detained at their homes. Detention warrants were issued for six Boydak family members in total on allegations of financing the Gulen group.
On Friday, the European Union affairs ministry suspended 16 people and dismissed six others as part of the investigation into the Gulen movement, while the public prosecutor’s office in the Aegean coastal town of Izmir issued orders for 203 police personnel to be apprehended, Anadolu said. The United States has asked Turkey for evidence of his involvement, and said the USA extradition process must take its course.
“In Nigeria, there are 17 schools, which belong to the Gulen Movement, one in Kano, one in Kaduna, one in Abuja, Lagos etc and they are offering scholarships”.
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“Relations with Russian Federation are not Turkey’s alternative to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and EU”, Cavusoglu said.
