Oklahoma City Thunder Center Enes Kanter, is under fire for publicly endorsing Gulen after the failed coup.
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In 2011 he was elected as an MP for Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) led at the time by the current Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the foreign minister, told NTV television that a number of Turkish military attaches overseas supported the coup and some had even notified their embassies on the night of the failed coup that they were “in charge now”.
Mr. Erdogan has made public his displeasure at the United States refusing to extradite Fethullah Gulen, the US -based imam Mr. Erdogan considers responsible for last month’s failed coup attempt.
“The main element improving our relations with the U.S. is the extradition of Gulen, where there is no room for negotiation”, Mr Yildirim was quoted as saying by CNN Turk’s general manager, who was among journalists attending the briefing.
With anti-US conspiracy theories becoming ever more elaborate, the USA embassy in Ankara explicitly rebutted any suggestion that Washington had a hand in the coup and wanted it to succeed.
USA officials told Reuters this week that a Turkish military officer on a US -based assignment for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is also seeking asylum in the United States after being recalled by the government.
Russian Federation denied the plane had been over Turkey and called the act a planned provocation by supporters of terrorism.
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Yet claims that Washington is not being upfront about what it knew about the coup are not restricted to radical conservatives but held by wide swathes of society.
In fact, the United States is leading a coalition of some three dozen Western and Arab countries on a mission to destroy IS. “And it’s Turkey who suffers”, said Cihan, a young resident of Istanbul.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Turkey would be willing to modify its anti-terror law if the changes don’t impede the fight against terrorism and if Turkish citizens are guaranteed visa-free travel in Europe, Turkey’s ambassador to the European Union said Thursday.
Cavusoglu also mentioned that Turkey did not see “any difference between the PKK, PYD and PJAK”, adding that these terrorist groups are a security threat to Iran and Turkey.
U.S. officials say the State and Justice Departments will give due consideration to the extradition request for Gulen and make any decision based on the evidence presented.
“There is an illegal organization and authorities are taking measures within the business world, the military, the police and the judiciary so that [coup attempt] can not happen again”, Kalin said.
Turkey has also asked Athens to return eight suspected coup-plotters who fled Turkey in a helicopter, just after the coup was quashed.
“Anti-Americanism brings benefits in all countries”. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 24 civilians were killed, along with six others whose affiliation or identities could not yet be confirmed.
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The identification and elimination of whole classes of “enemies” is an old totalitarian practice; so is the arrest of people not for what they have done, but for who they are.
