“We will bring graduate education instead of military academies”, Erdogan told the broadcaster, while promising that the new legislation will be published in Turkey’s Official Gazette on Sunday.
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More than 60,000 people have been detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with the coup attempt, when a faction of the military commandeered tanks, helicopters and fighter jets and attempted to topple the government.
“If things do not return to normal in the state of emergency then like France we could extend it”, Erdogan said.
Another 231 soldiers remain in custody, it said.
Among those, more than 20 court reporters were detained, it reported.
Conspiracy theories have flourished in Turkey since the attempted coup, with one pro-government newspaper saying the putsch was financed by the Central Intelligence Agency and directed by a retired US army general using a cell phone in Afghanistan.
According to the updated number of casualties announced by Erdogan on Friday, the misadventure claimed the lives of 237 people, including 170 civilians, 62 police officers and five soldiers.
More than 10,000 people have been arrested in the crackdown, most of whom are military personnel.
In an unexpected move, Erdogan said late on Friday that as a one-off gesture, he would drop all lawsuits filed against people for insulting him.
After a hearing lasting to midnight, four were freed but 17 placed under arrest ahead of trial, charged with “membership of a terror group”, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Turkey’s Western allies condemned the attempted coup, but have been rattled by the scale of the resulting crackdown.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday told the European Union and U.S. to “mind your own business” after the West expressed alarm over the growing crackdown against suspected coup plotters, as a court placed 17 journalists under arrest.
Some 66 000 civil servants have been dismissed and 50 000 passports have been cancelled in relation to the coup attempt.
The authorities had said earlier this year that over 2,000 people were being prosecuted on charges of insulting the president.
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Erdogan also said a three-month state of emergency declared in the wake of the coup could be extended, as the French authorities did after a string of jihadist attacks in the country.
