According to Erdogan, 237 people were killed during the event with over 2,100 wounded.
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Turkey on Thursday already reshuffled the upper echelons of its military after almost half of its 358 generals were sacked for complicity in the coup.
Gulen strongly denies the charges.
Dozens of staff at Turkey’s highest court have been suspended from their jobs as part of the crackdown in the wake of a failed military coup, authorities said.
Turkey’s allies in the West condemned the attempted coup, but have been shocked by the great scale of the crackdown it resulted in.
At the same time, Ankara is demanding that Germany extradite suspects linked to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan accuses of masterminding the power snatch.
“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.
Germany is home to Turkey’s largest diaspora and the rally scheduled for later Sunday was expected to attract tens of thousands of people opposed to the failed July 15 putsch. It also shuts down military schools, establishes a new national defense university, puts the force commanders directly under the defense ministry and announces the discharge of 1,389 military personnel.
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.
Adding to the acrimony, Turkey’s EU Affairs minister hit out at Germany on Sunday after its constitutional court upheld a ban on Erdogan making a televised address to a rally of pro-government Turks in Cologne. Authorities in Washington have said they will review any extradition request, but indicate they will be moved only by clear evidence of the cleric’s involvement in an anti-Erdogan plot.
“Without doubt”, Cemil Ertem wrote in the Milliyet newspaper, Turkish efforts to resolve regional conflicts and fix relations with Russian Federation triggered the coup attempt.
The UETD expects between 30,000 and 50,000 to turn up, including participants from Finland, Britain and Austria.
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The two generals were expected to discuss ways to conduct damage control in the ties between the two militaries and particularly to ensure the continuation of effective joint action against ISIL, while also reviewing the current state of developments in Syria and Iraq.
