“We are not leaving these squares”, said Durhan Yilmiz, an Istanbul municipality worker. “(The) Turkish flag can not be lowered”.
Advertisement
Over 290 people were killed and around 1,400 wounded as soldiers commandeered tanks, attack helicopters and warplanes, and tried to seize the main airport and bridges in Istanbul. SoftBank will pay 17 pounds a share for ARM – a premium of more than 40 percent to Friday’s closing price.
But Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, hit back at criticism of the treatment of suspected coup plotters, saying it amounted to support for the failed coup.
A US -based cleric accused of orchestrating Turkey’s abortive coup may be able to remain in the United States for years even if Turkey asks for his extradition, lawyers with experience in extradition proceedings said.
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said Ozturk had confessed to helping to plot the coup.
We have sent four files to the United States requesting the extradition of ‘the terrorist leader, ‘ he wrote in a tweet.
“On the grounds of suspicion, he can be easily extradited”. He said at the US would first need to see “evidence, not allegations” of Gulen’s responsibility. The suspended personnel were on passive duty due to a supervision decision against them and didn’t have access to intelligence, Anadolu Agency reported.
Seventy-five-year-old Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has condemned the attempted coup and denied any role in it.
The note, published on the official website of the General Staff of the Republic of Turkey, said that National Security Organisation (MIT) had provided information of the coup attempt on July 15, 2017 at 4.00 pm (GMT 1300). They could be sympathizers of the nationalist party. Beyond the detentions, one Turkish government minister even claimed US complicity in the violence.
The country’s higher education board made the demand for deans at state and private foundation universities to resign, Anadolu said.
The latest developments come as the country’s public sector workers were reportedly banned from travelling overseas as the government seeks to prevent any Gullenist supporters from leaving, according to Turkish TV station NTV.
Gen. Ozturk, however, insisted that this was not the case, he says that he was neither the ringleader of Friday’s coup nor was he involved at all in the planning stages of it. “Our response to the coup attempt has proven that our democracy is strong”, he said.
Mr Erdogan also insisted the United States should extradite Mr Gulen, warning that it “should not keep such a terrorist”. Let them investigate if there was such a thing and let them make a decision. He said an extradition order will follow.
He said 9,000 people have been detained so far, of whom 80 were later released. If they are scared off, that could push the lira down further.
USA stock index futures were up, indicating Wall Street would open higher after closing flat on Friday.
Though the rate-setting body didn’t mention the coup directly, it said recent measures “have increased the resilience of the economy against shocks”.
“The explicit stance and rhetoric of the European Central Bank continues to support risk assets and suppress volatility”, he said.
Also Turkey’s highest administrative court suspended 48 of its members following an investigation launched by the Ankara chief public prosecutor’s office.
He said it is “particularly crucial to ensure that human rights are not squandered in the name of security and in the rush to punish those perceived to be responsible”.
In one of his rare interviews, Fethullah Gulen told reporters at his Pennsylvania compound in the United States, that he knows only a “minute fraction” of his legions of sympathizers in Turkey, so he can not speak to their “potential involvement” in the attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Following processing by the Antalya police, he has been transferred to Ankara. Arrest warrants were issued for 250 judges and prosecutors, while 2,745 judges were dismissed from their posts at the weekend. Dozens of others were still being questioned. The government says a US -based Muslim cleric was behind the coup.
Advertisement
Some 6,000 members of the judiciary and military, including generals, have been detained.
