The coup was led by disgruntled elements in the military who the authorities say were followers of Gulen fast-tracked to senior positions by rigging in examinations.
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Mr Erdogan insisted that Turkey had a policy of “zero tolerance toward torture” and accused the London-based rights advocacy group of ignoring violence committed by the coup plotters during the July 15 attempt.
The legal wrangling over Gulen, Ellis said, “could be very drawn out”. He clearly and strongly condemned the coup attempt and rejected the Turkish accusation of US involvement in it.
The Barack Obama administration has condemned the coup attempt but has not given an opinion on who was behind it.
In an article headlined “Europe, Stand up for Erdogan” for the Politico news website, he questioned the time it took Europe’s leaders to denounce the coup, which Turkey has said was carried out by the supporters of US -based preacher Fetullah Gulen.
Erdogan has responded to the failed coup by closing dozens of media outlets, while he also demanded last week that Germany should extradite supporters of Gulen, as well as for Gulen himself to be extradited by the United States of America, where he lives.
Gulen, a former Erdogan ally turned fierce critic, has denied any involvement in the coup plot but acknowledged in a CNN interview that people “sympathetic” to his movement may have been among the coup plotters.
The claim that the West or at least western intelligence agencies had something to do with a coup attempt in Turkey has been made a couple of times now by Turkish officials. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Turkey’s Chief of Staff Geneneral Hulusi Akar, review a military honor guard at the military headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday, .
Erdogan cooperated with the United States war on Syria and then he got cold feet.
But he said Athens had renewed requests to the European Union to end delays in an emergency funding and the implementation of a relocation program for migrants stranded in Greece.
Opposition party members said they would monitor the ruling party’s actions to make sure that those dismissed from their jobs or arrested were actually adherents of the Gulen movement.
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The officials who were fired were linked to the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation (FETO).
According to the booklet, “FETO claims to be a provider of education, and its members – governed by a strong infrastructure – promote themselves overseas as volunteers of education and peace”. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
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He also said that the fact Kurdish groups were helping fight ISIS did not redeem them in Turkey’s eyes, noting the country recognizes both the PKK and ISIS as terrorist organizations. “FETO was included in 2015, alongside the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] and ISIS [IS]”. Its conquest of the planet must be advanced by all means possible, from mandatory religious education in Turkey (achieved by closing more and more secular schools) to the use of any amount of violence by Sunni Muslims fighting non-Sunnis anywhere in the world, from Hamas in Gaza to the al Qaeda affiliates in Syria and the Uighurs in China.
