“In democracies, decisions are made based on what the people say”. Arrests will continue, according to Turkey’s foreign ministry.
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The president has called on Turks to stay on the streets until Friday, and late into Sunday night, his supporters thronged squares and streets, honking horns and waving flags.
Pictures on social media showed detained soldiers stripped to the waist, some wearing only their underpants, handcuffed and lying packed together on the floor of a sports hall where they were being held in Ankara.
One video posted on Twitter showed detained generals with bruises and bandages.
By last Friday the Istanbul National 100 stock index had risen by nearly 15% since the beginning of the year.
Speaking to state-run news channel TRT Haber, Bekir Bozdag said keeping Mr Gulen “wouldn’t befit the solidarity, co-operation, alliance and friendship between Turkey and the United States”.
Meanwhile, authorities have also detained General Mehmet Disli, who conducted the operation to capture Turkey’s chief of staff Hulusi Akar during the stand-off, a Turkish official said.
The military’s claim of a takeover was read on state broadcaster TRT.
Saudi Arabia detained Turkey’s military attache to Kuwait at Turkey’s request, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said.
“Control across Turkey has been restored and there are no clashes at the moment”, a senior official said, adding although a few groups of coup plotters were holding out in Istanbul, they no longer posed a risk.
“The full circumstances of the coup attempt and the violence that followed it must be effectively investigated and all those responsible brought to justice in fair trials”, the statement read. And why has he been described as the “second most powerful man” in Turkey?
He said the toll comprises “208 martyrs” – in reference to government supporters – and 24 coup plotters.
The cleric has denied playing any role in the attempted coup, which he called an affront to democracy, and on Sunday told reporters he believed Erdogan had staged the putsch.
Turkey has said it is putting together an extradition request for the cleric. The gap between the two allies’ agendas became clear Sunday, when US officials responded to Ankara’s demands that he be handed over by spelling out the legal procedures and evidence hurdles involved in that process.
Even before the coup attempt was over, Erdogan promised a purge of the armed forces.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has vowed that the plotters “will pay a heavy price”.
Some European politicians expressed unease.
Despite predictions that trading in Istanbul would be turbulent when it opened for the first time since the coup attempt, investors seem to have been reassured by weekend efforts by the authorities to calm the situation down.
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“We also urge the government of Turkey to uphold the highest standards of respect for the nation’s democratic institutions and the rule of law”, US Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference after talks with European Union foreign ministers.
