Meanwhile, a senior Turkish official told Reuters on Thursday that two Turkish military attaches in Greece are missing after being called back to Ankara as part of investigations into last month’s failed military coup.
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Meanwhile, Turkish media reported that wanted Rear Admiral Mustafa Zeki Ugurlu, who was on a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation assignment in the USA during the coup, had sought political asylum from Washington. The government has accused the preacher, Fethullah Gulen, of orchestrating the failed insurrection. Gulen has repeatedly denied involvement.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a news conference with the Adviser to Pakistan’s Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, August 2, 2016.
Cavusoglu also said real time communication was also needed between the two countries’ presidents and military officials, suggesting that a hotline should be established. Cavusoglu told NTV, a private broadcaster in Turkey, that the two men, navy and land forces colonels, disappeared with their families on a ferry Saturday, August 6. He said one of the colonels had a brother in the Netherlands and that both Italy and the Netherlands had been notified.
“The only thing is that we’ve proposed to divide expenses on the construction of the pipeline’s section crossing our territory into halves”, Turkish President said, adding that outside Turkey gas will be transported through the Black Sea.
A Turkish admiral posted in the United States has disappeared and is reported to have sought asylum after being sought by Turkish authorities to return home and participate in legal proceedings following charges of military espionage.
Many more have lost their jobs or been suspended across Turkey’s public services, on suspicion of being Gulen followers. “We are seeing signs of USA cooperation”.
Rear Admiral Ugurlu is in a different situation, however, because he was stationed in Virginia at the time of the coup, at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation headquarters in Norfolk. A spokesman for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Steve Blando, said, “We can not comment on any specific asylum requests”. The visit by a key regional player in the Middle East will please Ankara, which has hit out at the lack of Western leaders coming to Turkey since a rogue military faction tried to oust Erdogan from power on July 15. The eight are seeking political asylum.
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“Either coup-plotting terrorist Feto or democratic country Turkey”. The daily gatherings, which have attracted hundreds of thousands wishing to show their opposition to the foiled July 15 coup, culminated Sunday in an Istanbul rally that 5 million people are thought have attended, according to local officials.
