“I would like to call on all our friends to take the necessary measures against the Fethullah Terrorist Organization in their own countries for the future of their own people and their well-being”, he told the UN General Assembly, referring to Gulen’s movement.
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(NEW YORK CITY, NY) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters in an interview on Monday that the United States should “not harbor a terrorist” like US -based cleric Fethullah Gulen and that his activities should be banned around the world.
Following the botched putsch, Ankara also suspended around 100,000 civil servants and detained some 40,000 people over ties with the opposition cleric, Fethullah Gulen (seen below), who is blamed for the coup attempt.
Turkey has fired nearly 28,000 teachers and suspended more than 9,000 others for suspected links to the failed July coup and Kurdish militants, deputy prime minister Nurettin Canikli said Monday.
Turkish authorities have dismissed nearly 28,000 teachers and suspended almost 9,500 others over alleged links to terrorism, a deputy prime minister said on Monday, pursuing a security crackdown followed a failed coup in July.
On State of Emergency: “It can be extended for three months or one month or even more”.
In two days, Turkey launched its largest military operation around the Syrian city of Jarablus in an effort to cleanse DAESH terrorist elements from their last stronghold on the border with Turkey and halt their imminent threat to carry out more suicide attacks in Turkey.
Government officials said if people have been wrongly arrested, they’ll have a chance at due process.
The FSA commander, stating that the USA fighter jets also targeted the IS positions in the region, said: “American soldiers offered support to us, but we rejected”.
Calling for an immediate political solution to resolve the crisis in Syria, Erdogan said: “Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria in early September had led to establishing peace, balance and stability in a region taken over by hopelessness”.
Erdogan is a major proponent of toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Islamic State and PYD can be removed from Syria only with the support of Turkish soldiers, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) commander has said.
