“There is a superior structure overseeing Gülen’s terrorist organization and they are the ones who organized this coup”, he said.
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Duran accused the Western media of not taking a clear stance against the coup attempt, saying that they want to limit Turkey’s will as well as hinder its efforts to cleanse Turkey of the coup-plotters.
“There are other countries behind this coup attempt”, Erdogan said when announcing the state of emergency, without naming them.
“The sheer number of arrests and suspensions in recent days is nothing short of alarming, and suggests that purges are now being used to censor anyone, including academics, who is critical of the government”, wrote David Robinson, the association’s executive director.
Erdogan, an Islamist who has led Turkey as prime minister or president since 2003, has vowed to clean the “virus” responsible for the plot from all state institutions.
Turkey is pressing the US to extradite Mr Gulen and the issue was raised during a phone call between US President Barack Obama and President Erdogan on Tuesday, the White House said. At least 24 coup plotters were also killed.
Austria, meahwhile, summoned Turkey’s ambassador and questioned him about the country’s future.
“It is important for all of us that Turkey continue to be a strong North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally because Turkey is on the border of all the instability, all the violence we have seen in Iraq and Syria”, Stoltenberg said. Turkey’s various security forces will be thoroughly investigated.
The agency did not specify what kind of treatment the officers were receiving at the Gulhane Military Medical Academy.
Germany called for the measure to be ended as quickly as possible, while an global lawyers’ group warned Turkey against using it to subvert the rule of law and human rights, pointing to allegations of torture and ill-treatment of people held in the mass roundup.
More than 50,000 civil service employees, including police, judges and the military, have been fired since the coup, the AP reported.
The Turkish president blames USA -based cleric Fethullah Gulen as the instigator of the botched coup and he’s moved swiftly against Gulen supporters in his country’s institutions. The declaration will enable Turkey to “take the most efficient steps” in order to remove threats to “democracy, to the rule of law and to the freedoms of the citizens in our country”, he said.
The Turkish government on July 20 also banned all academics from foreign travel as part of wide-ranging restrictions put in place in Turkey.
The cache of almost 300,000 AK Party emails was obtained before the plot to overthrow the government and dates from 2010 to 6 July this year. Gulen vehemently denies the charge.
Turkey has requested Gulen’s extradition from the United States.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said a U.S. court will need to be convinced by evidence of Mr. Gulen’s involvement.
