“However, we will continue fighting them”, Erdogan said, dismissing Gulen’s claims that Turkey is endorsing ISIS.
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A Turkish court has formally issued an arrest warrant for the U.S. based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen who the government has accused of being behind the failed coup last month.
Gulen has denied involvement or prior knowledge of the coup attempt.
“They have nothing to do with a religious community, they are a fully-fledged terrorist organisation”. And he says most of the people prominently associated with the group are Taiwanese, and none have asked to have their names formally removed from any public material linking them to the institute since the July 15 coup.
“No doubt there is also a business side of this organization”.
Earlier Thursday, Erdogan vowed to go after businesses linked to Gulen’s movement. We are not going to show anyone any mercy’.
Erdogan, who blames the attempt to unseat him on US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, described the July 15 coup as a “scenario written from outside” in an allusion to foreign involvement.
Standing beside Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shortly after arriving in Turkey, Mr Jagland told the media that the coup attempt had been “outrageous” and “there has been too little understanding in Europe” on how a secret network had infiltrated the army and judiciary.
The president also called for reform of the judicial system.
Many people were detained in the raid on the offices of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tubitak) in the northwestern province of Kocaeli, NTV said, without giving details. “However, when we look at the organization, they hide their real identities in Turkey and other relevant countries as they settle into critical state institutions”.
Health Minister Recep Akdag said in an interview on state-run broadcaster TRT that his ministry had taken control of 36 institutions, including some private hospitals, that were temporarily shut after the coup and that military hospitals would now be under the supervision of his ministry.
Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern on Wednesday said the membership talks were “no more than fiction”.
“It is our responsibility to warn countries that have (Gulen-linked) schools”, Eker said.
“We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms”, she said at a meeting of 28 European Union foreign ministers, alongside U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Turkish journalist Ozcan Tikit wrote in Turkish newspaper Habertürk: “If one wants to again create relationship of trust with the Western institutions, Gladio in Turkey must be eliminated as it already was in several Western countries”.
Members of the parliamentary delegation to Washington, who included representatives of the center-left Republican People’s Party (CHP) and nationalist-right Nationalist Action Party (MHP) but not the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party – did not accuse the United States of direct responsibility for the coup attempt but expressed concern about the trajectory of US-Turkey ties.
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Turkey has also grumbled that it has so far not received its promised returns under the landmark deal to stem the flow of migrants to Europe, raising alarm about the future of the deal.
