This brings the number of military dismissals to more than 3,000 following the failed coup, in which rebel units used tanks and aircraft to try to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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The document, published in the official gazette Sunday, also shuts down all military schools, academies and non-commissioned officer training institutes and establishes a new national defence university to train officers.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a sweeping crackdown on those he accuses of being involved in the attempted coup on July 15.
Erdogan – who says a group within the military acted on the orders of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen – has also said he will bring the country’s spy agency and military chief of staff directly under his control.
A total of 8,651 soldiers took part in the failed coup attempt of July 15, making up 1.5 percent of the military’s total personnel, the Turkish General Staff announced.
Anadolu meanwhile said Turkey’s deputy prime ministers and the ministers for justice, interior and foreign affairs have all become members of the Supreme Military Council, which determines the armed forces’ agenda. So far, over 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and schools have been detained, removed or suspended over suspected Gulen links.
The proposals need to be approved by parliament.
Erdogan often refers to a “mastermind” in his speeches, a reference widely seen as an allusion to the West in general and the United States more specifically. Gulen is an Erdogan opponent, but has denied any connection to the upheaval.
A regional court imposed the condition that no messages from speakers elsewhere – such as politicians in Turkey – could be shown on a video screen at the rally.
The US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joe Dunford, was to visit Turkey and was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Monday, the prime minister’s office said.
Erdogan’s heavy-handed response to the coup attempt has drawn criticism from his western allies.
Germany is home to the largest Turkish diaspora with three million residents in the country having Turkish ancestry.
“We are here because our compatriots in Germany are standing up for democracy and against the attempted military coup in Turkey”, said Turkey’s sports minister Akif Cagatay Kilic at the rally, Tagesspiegel daily reported.
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German media said authorities had made a decision to bar Erdogan from addressing a rally via videoconference in the city of Cologne on Sunday due to concerns over public order, prompting an angry response from Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik.
