Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said once more that he sees no difference between terrorist groups such as the PKK, PYD, YPG, and Daesh, and USA -based preacher Fetullah Gulen’s FETO, or Fetullah Terrorist Organization, Anadolu Agency reports.
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A lawyer for the Turkish government, Robert Amsterdam, said that “there are indications of direct involvement” in the Friday, July 15, 2016, coup attempt of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who is living in exile in Pennsylvania.
In the warrant, Gülen stands accused of “ordering the July 15 coup”, Anadolu reported.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed on Thursday a new threat claim from the Gulen movement to take more action on August 14, local media NTV reported.
“Despite everything, I feel sad that I failed to reveal the true face of this traitor organisation long before”, Mr Erdogan said in a televised speech, referring to Gulen’s network which Turkey alleges is a terror group.
On Sunday, thousands of people gathered in the German city of Cologne to denounce the failed coup and show support for Erdogan.
Before the failed coup, the Turkish authorities had already seized Islamic lender Bank Asya, taken over or closed several media companies and detained businessmen on allegations of funding the cleric’s movement.
The pan-European party says it is “deeply concerned” about the extent of the reprisals that it says are being carried out in Turkey.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey would introduce a package of reforms to encourage investment including removing some taxes, as the government looks to shore up confidence.
Turkey’s primary objective is to put an end to the fighting in Syria “without delay and on a permanent basis” because all the negative aspects of the Syrian conflict are immediately felt in the neighbouring country, Kalin said.
“If we request the extradition of a terrorist then you should fulfil that”, he said.
According to Hurriyet Daily News, Istanbul prosecutor Can Tuncay ruled out that the Gulen movement had infiltrated the Turkish military in big cities with the aim to take control over governmental bodies and change the country’s constitution.
Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern on Wednesday said the membership talks were “no more than fiction”.
Turkey is highly unlikely to change its counter-terrorism laws in accordance with the EU’s criteria for visa liberalisation, and their own domestic concerns mean that European Union member states will be highly unlikely to acquiesce to President Erdogan’s ultimatum.
“All viruses inside the Turkish Armed Forces, police and judiciary and all state establishments should be removed”, Erdogan said as he slammed the attitude of western governments toward Turkey following the overthrow attempt.
“(The country) remains an important partner in security and integration matters”, Kern said, highlighting Turkey’s key role in the ongoing migrant crisis.
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“All those have the capability of acting together against the Republic of Turkey”.
