Turkish authorities have detained a total of 35,022 people on suspicion of involvement in last month’s failed coup attempt, officials have announced.
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Over 240 people were killed, and nearly 2,200 injured when fighter jets, helicopters, and tanks controlled by the military opened fire on civilians to suppress the attempted coup.
Turkish government accuses the US-based cleric and businessman of masterminding last month’s failed coup attempt.
Turkey’s state-run news agency says a Turkish naval officer working in the United States has gone missing and has failed to report back home following a failed coup by renegade officers within the Turkish military.
Earlier, Turkish president’s spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said that a Turkish delegation will visit Russian Federation to discuss the Syrian crisis. “Although the numbers of military people implicated have been high, it’s only a small proportion, and the army is capable of managing things”, he said. I suspected nothing. That’s the talent of this movement.
Cavusolgu said suspensions applied to 300 members of Turkey’s foreign ministry, including two ambassadors.
Two of them included the land and navy attaches based in Greece, Cavusoglu said.
The three-person Turkish delegation in Moscow, made up of representatives from the military, intelligence and foreign service, is tasked with implementing decisions made at Tuesday’s summit, Cavusoglu said. PARALLEL STATEErdogan accuses Gulen of staging the attempted putsch, harnessing his extensive network of schools, charities and businesses built up in Turkey and overseas over decades to create a “parallel structure”.
Trudeau said the State Department doesn’t comment on or handle asylum cases.
A state of emergency, declared on 20 July, expanded government powers to issue arrest warrants and hold people in custody for up to 30 days without charge.
Turkey is ready to equally split the financing of the Turkish Stream pipeline with Russia, Haberturk daily cites President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying. “Sooner or later the United States of America will make a choice”.
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Cavusoglu also revealed that two generals assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force in Afghanistan were detained last month in Dubai and returned by the United Arab Emirates. Turkey has also cancelled the work permits of 27,424 people in the education sector as part of its investigations, Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz said on Thursday.
