Erdogan had been on vacation during the July 15 coup.
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About the military’s restructuring after the coup attempt, Erdogan indicated that they intend to establish a gendarmerie academy to be a training center for the elements, pointing out that in the current phase all military hospitals will fl under the Health Ministry. USA policymakers must “brace for the new reality that America’s alliance with Turkey is not guaranteed”, the report said.
“They will not hear a human voice again”.
“They are not coming after the images revealed tanks were deployed on the streets, parliament was bombed”, Tufenkci said, pointing out that some foreign orders had been cancelled in the wake of the coup.
Turkey has demanded the speedy extradition of Gulen from the United States, but Washington has asked for evidence he was involved in the attempted coup and says the U.S. extradition process must be allowed to take its course.
Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999 and has denied any involvement in the putsch.
They have accused Western leaders of being more concerned about the rights of the plotters than the gravity of the threat to a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member state.
More than 230 people were killed in the attempted coup, many of them civilians, and more than 2,000 injured.
Retaliating after a failed military attempt to unseat him, Mr Erdogan has launched a purge in which tens of thousands of people have been suspended from their jobs and nearly 19,000 detained. Around 40 percent of Turkey’s generals and admirals have been dismissed. About 18,000 people have been detained or arrested, majority from the military, while authorities have said the purge of those suspected of links to Gulen in the military will continue.
Turkey had also canceled this year’s August 30 Victory Day military parades because of the “extraordinary situation”, the minister said. Although the CHP leader claimed the failed coup was a victory for democracy, he also warned about the dangers of authoritarianism.
Turkey summoned a senior German diplomat on Monday, a day after a rally in Cologne in support of the Turkish president who was not permitted to address the crowd by video link.
“German Constitutional Court’s decision on the anti-coup rally in Cologne is an utter backsliding in freedom of speech and democracy”, Turkey’s minister for European Union affairs, Omer Celik, wrote in English on his official Twitter account. This was not done only domestically
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Pearson and Korb spoke to MEE on Monday, as America’s top military officer, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Joseph Dunford, was in Ankara, working to soothe ties with Turkey and limit the damage from the abortive coup on 15 July.
According to official reports, the president’s security team was tipped off that a squad of soldiers was heading to his hotel and moved him.
An Interior Ministry official, who declined to be named, described the arrested men as members of a “death squad” and said the overnight operation to catch them followed a tip-off from local villagers.
Video footage showed a dozen or so anti-coup demonstrators jeering the 11 detained soldiers, some of whom had swollen faces and bruises.
A Turkish protester holds a portrait of president Erdogan during a demonstration in Cologne, Germany.
More than 1,700 military personnel were dishonorably discharged last week for their role in the putsch.
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The government has launched a sweeping crackdown on Gulen’s movement, which it characterizes as a terrorist organization and which runs schools, charities and businesses internationally.
