North Atlantic Treaty Organisation released the statement one day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russia. While Moscow has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad throughout the nation’s civil war and further bolstered that support by launching an air campaign last September, Turkey has pushed for Assad’s removal. The meeting would be followed by talks by higher level officials, he said, adding that the two countries had a mutual understanding on a number of issues. “We may think differently on how to implement the cease-fire”, he said. We don’t believe it is appropriate that the moderate opposition is attacked.
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Turkish police said that it has detained 112 businessmen in several provinces on Wednesday, accusing them all of having links to a US -based cleric the government blames for the July 15 coup attempt.
“He also conveyed his condolences for those who had lost their lives during the coup attempt”.
However, the rebelling servicemen started to surrender July 16 and Turkish authorities said the coup attempt failed. Washington has strongly denied that.
Speaking to a group of Turkish exporters on Wednesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also vowed to press ahead with a large-scale government crackdown on suspected members of the movement led by Fethullah Gulen.
“We are building a strong mechanism with Russian Federation regarding Syria, ” Cavusoglu said.
“We are not amending our relations with Russian Federation to send a message to the West”, he told Anadolu.
“We have become targets”, the owner of a print shop who identified himself as a supporter of Gulen’s told Die Zeit.
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The visit has “sparked concern that theNATO member is turning increasingly to the East as it feels rebuffed by the West over a host of issues such as European Union membership and the West’s tepid response to the defeated July 15 coup”, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.
