Since the coup, more than 35,000 people have been detained, of whom 17,000 have been placed under formal arrest, and tens of thousands more suspended in a purge of Turkey’s military, law-and-order, education and justice systems.
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Prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 187 suspects including the CEOs of leading companies.
Dogan said prominent businessmen were among the suspects being sought by police on suspicion of belonging to and financing a terrorist organization.
A Justice Ministry file had been delivered to Greece requesting the officers’ return over charges that include breaching the Constitution through the use of force, plotting to kill the president and crimes against the parliament and government, Anadolu reported.
Terming the visit of Pakistan’s parliamentary delegation – led by Senator Mushahid Hussain – as “very significant”, Erdogan said “your support to Turkey in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt is exemplary”. Gulen denies involvement in the coup attempt and has denounced it.
The six pilots and two engineers fled to Greece in a military helicopter, and Turkey wants them returned to stand trial for their role in the coup.
There are also 4897 officials expelled so far, including more than 3,000 military, as the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, said on Saturday.
Turkish officials say the injury toll in two auto bombings targeting police stations in eastern Turkey has reached at least 219.
In the latest move Wednesday, the authorities fired another 2,692 civil servants mostly from the police, the official gazette announced.
A vehicle bomb ripped through a police station in the city of Elazig at 9:20 a.m. (0620 GMT) as officers arrived for work.
Early Thursday, another vehicle bombing hit police headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig. At least 14 of them were in serious condition.
Erdogan has came under extreme criticism from his North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies for his tyrannical crackdown but the president defends his actions stating that Turkey is facing a serious internal national threat which demands extreme measures to extinguish.
Authorities blamed that attack on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has launched a campaign of auto bombings targeting police stations or roadside bomb attacks on police vehicles.
On Thursday, PKK militants also attacked a police checkpoint in the southeastern town of Semdinli, near the Iraqi and Iranian borders, wounding two police officers, Dogan news agency said.
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Hours later, another vehicle bombing hit police headquarters in the eastern Turkish city of Elazig, wounding several people, an official said. More than 40,000 people, mainly Kurds, have died since it took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.
