The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has fired 94 officials including referees and members of the disciplinary committee in the wake of the July 15 failed coup attempt.
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Gulen, who heads an worldwide network of schools, charities and businesses, denies any knowledge of or participation in the coup. On Wednesday, he accused the West of siding with terrorism and complained that no European leaders had visited Turkey to express support after the coup.
“We are the ones who are protecting the European Union by sheltering 3 million Syrians and Iraqis”, Erdogan said during a speech in Ankara at an event for foreign investors.
“This coup attempt has actors inside Turkey, but its script was written outside”. Interior Minister Efkan Ala said work on restructuring the MIT intelligence agency was ongoing and “should not take too long”.
Turkey’s government says the coup was instigated by US -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally now living in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.
Ismayil said that the cooperation between Turkey and Russian Federation will ensure prosperity and security of the region.
Mr Jagland’s organisation monitors human rights compliance among the Council’s 47 members, including Turkey.
He said he wanted to emphasise the agreement to prove there is a wrong perception when things are presented through the actions of Turkey’s President Erdogan exclusively, adding that the emergency state was not the decision of just one man, because Turkey is a democracy.
So far, more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service, academia, media and other sectors have been either detained, suspended or placed under investigation over suspected links with Gulen who has denied orchestrating the coup. And Erdogan’s spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said Wednesday that there are documents linking Gulen’s movement to the attempted coup and that, as a panel of 70 Turkish judges assembles evidence, “a clearer picture will emerge and we will share it with the public”. Turkey, he said, will obviously wait for the deadline as the negotiations go on, because it wants to solve the issues. “That’s called “the rule of law”, Mr Renzi said.
Christopher Torchia was The Associated Press’ bureau chief in Turkey from 2007-13, and covered the aftermath of the attempted coup last month.
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“Within this framework, the Turkish parliament places great importance on cooperation with all institutions of the Council of Europe, notably the Parliamentary Assembly”, he said. But he will also hear a list of grievances from his hosts over the what they perceive as lacklustre support from the European Union and the United States – no other senior political figures have visited Turkey since the coup.
