“Now the clean-up operations are continuing”.
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He put the total numbers of detentions since Friday’s tumultuous night at 7,543, including 6,030 military.
The country’s justice minister said that as many as 6,000 people had been detained by Monday.
Erdogan also announced that Turkey is considering reinstating capital punishment following the coup attempt, noting that he will bring the subject up with opposition parties in parliament. It wasn’t immediately clear what role, if any, Yazici played in the attempted coup that started late Friday.
Tanks were rolling through the streets of Ankara, while bridges over the Bosphorus were blocked in Istanbul.
The U.S. consulate in the southern Turkish city of Adana said Sunday that authorities had cut power to Incirlik and blocked movement to and from the facility.
The same official said the situation in Konya was “under control” after coup backers there also resisted arrest.
His foreign minister, Nikos Kotzias, told his Turkish counterpart it would be “borne very seriously in mind” by authorities that the arrested stand accused in their country of violating constitutional legality and attempting to overthrow democracy.
It was an emotional display by Turks, who rallied in headscarves and long dresses, T-shirts and work boots, some walking hand in hand late on Saturday and early on Sunday with their children.
Over the weekend supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan rallied in public squares, at Istanbul airport and outside his palace in a show of defiance after the coup attempt killed at least 265 people.
Turkey has said it is putting together an extradition request for the cleric.
Turkey, a major USA ally in the region, has allowed the United States to use an air base in Incirlik to launch attacks against the militant group. But no matter how eager Ankara is to take on ISIS, massive purges in the military and across the government will make it much harder to effectively counter ISIS’s efforts to entrench itself within Turkey. The military asset, central to the US presence and strategy in the Middle East, has been thrust into the fallout over the coup bid, unsettling crucial military ties between Ankara and Washington. He strongly denies the charges.
Mourners attend a funeral of three people killed during the violence.
The interior ministry has sacked close to 9,000 personnel across the country following the coup attempt.
Among the victims of more than 100 people were participants in the coup. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules.
But there was no such concern from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who called Mr Erdogan to wish for a “speedy restoration of strong constitutional order”. Now, having failed to root out disloyal military officers in previous sweeps, Erdogan is casting a much wider net, and at least 2,800 members of the military have been arrested.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the failed military coup attempt did not interrupt the fight against the extremist group Islamic State (IS).
The suspects are being charged with membership of an “armed terrorist organisation” and attempting to overthrow the government by force, the Hurriyet Daily News reported. The agency said 58 homes of prosecutors and judges have been searched.
The United States on Saturday issued a warning for its citizens not to travel to Turkey.
It remains unclear who exactly was behind the attempted power grab. He has shaken up the government, cracked down on dissidents, restricted the news media and renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels.
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“We march in our funeral shrouds, and we will deal with these assassins, this cult, these followers of Fethullah”, said Erdoğan on Sunday at a funeral held for those who died in the recent coup.
