The annoucement followed long meetings of Turkey’s national security council and cabinet chaired by Erdogan at the presidential palace.
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“We will dig them up by their roots”, he told parliament.
However, Erdogan noted that the Turkish parliament had to decide on this issue.
With the president in attendance, a cleric prayed for divine protection from “the malice of the educated” – an apparent reference to the extensive network of schools run by the followers of Gulen, who has denied involvement in the coup attempt.
Mr Gulen, a 75-year-old former ally of Mr Erdogan, has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the late 1990s. Erdogan has since cracked down on his former allies, including by seizing businesses tied to Gulen.
“A person can easily be extradited on the basis of suspicion, and on this occasion there is a lot of suspicion that he orchestrated this”, he said. No military vehicles, including tanks and helicopters, were unaccounted for, Kalin said.
There are about three million refugees from Syria’s civil war in camps in Turkey.
“A deep split is emerging in Turkish society”, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. “The danger of an escalation in violence between Erdogan supporters and opponents has also risen in Germany”. “We need to have evidence which we can then make a judgment about”.
Gulcan Akoguz, the Turkish charge d’affairs in Ottawa, defended her government’s ongoing investigation into the coup attempt, saying it was probing all branches of the government, not just education.
Turkey’s prime minister confirmed on Tuesday that an official request has been sent to the USA for the extradition of Fetullah Gulen, a key suspect being linked to Friday’s failed coup attempt.
This treaty excludes offences “of a political character” although it does cover those “committed or attempted against a head of state or a head of government”.
The US State Department said it was still in the process of analysing the documents submitted by Turkey and could not characterise them as an extradition request for Mr Gulen.
In 1991, all death sentences handed down in Turkey before April of that year were commuted to between 10 and 20 years in jail, depending on the nature of their crimes, according to Amnesty International. And Kerry said Turkish officials have told the USA ambassador to Turkey that power to Incirlik would be restored in the next two days.
“U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein called on Turkey to uphold rule of law and provide fair trials”.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister said criticism of the government’s response amounted to backing for the bid to overthrow it.
“Today, is there no capital punishment in America?”
A statement from the Turkish embassy in Ottawa said its government has “solid proof” that Gulen’s organization staged the coup. Speaking alongside the leader of the main secularist opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), he said the country must avoid the risk that some people try to exploit the current situation. In total, more than 9,400 people are being detained, the vast majority of them from the military.
The president has remained in Istanbul ever since he dramatically flew back on Saturday to the city from the holiday resort of Marmaris where he was staying when the coup struck.
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Erdogan called it an attempted judicial coup by a “parallel establishment” within the state.
