Speaking late last night in a live television interview on CNN Turk, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said there would be a high-level visit to Turkey from the United States this month, without saying who would be visiting.
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Erdogan also repeated a complaint that no foreign leader had visited Turkey after the failed coup, while France and Belgium received visits in solidarity after terror attacks there.
The president said Turkey had sent Germany more than 4,000 files on what he said were wanted terrorists, but Germany did nothing. “Sorry, we will not let our guard down”.
Turkish ambassador in Bucharest Osman Koray Ertas said on Tuesday that a decision regarding the Romanian schools that are allegedly financed by Fethullah Gulen – a US-based cleric whom Turkish authorities blame for standing behind a failed coup in Turkey on July 15 – belongs to the Romanian officials, but Turkey raised the alarm on the issue.
The conditions, he said, “are known to all sides involved”.
It was mainly Gulenist prosecutors who, after Erdogan and his party narrowly escaped being banned in 2008, built two big conspiracy trials targeting the upper echelons of the military.
The purges of Gulen’s suspected followers extended to the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tubitak), which saw its offices raided on Sunday, an official there said. Broadcaster NTV said “many people” had been detained, but the official gave no details.
Turkish police raided on Wednesday the offices of the national science research council, broadcaster NTV said, as authorities expand investigation into followers of the USA -based cleric suspected of engineering last month’s coup attempt.
Standing beside Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shortly after arriving in Turkey, Mr Jagland told the media that the coup attempt had been “outrageous” and “there has been too little understanding in Europe” on how a secret network had infiltrated the army and judiciary.
“The coup attempt was outrageous”.
‘But it is also very important that this is being done in conformity with [European] law, and standards of the European Convention of Human Rights and the case law of the court of Human Rights which is a very good guidance’.
Erdogan also slammed Amnesty International for a report alleging that some people detained in connection with the coup attempt had been tortured.
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The decision was revealed by Sweden on the same day a top European human rights watchdog met with Turkish officials amid concerns over the scope of the crackdown against those accused of supporting the attempted coup.
