Earlier Wednesday, Dion said Canada had rebuffed the Turkish government’s requests for information on the Gulen movement in Canada.
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During a phone call Tuesday, President Barack Obama discussed with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turkey’s demand that the US extradite the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who has been in the USA for almost two decades.
The impending result has seen Erdogan use Gulen as the flawless strawman so that he can crackdown on any opponents – regardless of the actual extent of Gulen’s involvement.
The agency did not specify what kind of treatment the officers were receiving at the Gulhane Military Medical Academy.
“And the cabinet has chose to declare a state of emergency in our nation for a period of three months”.
Turkey has now fired or suspended about 50,000 people after a failed coup over the weekend as it intensifies its vast purge – battering the country’s security forces and many of its democratic institutions.
Turkey’s Telecommunications Communications Board said on Wednesday that an “administrative measure” had been taken against the website – the term it commonly uses when blocking access to sites.
Turkey expanded its crackdown within the country Tuesday to almost 17,000 teachers and administrators, including university professors and deans.
In the days since the coup failed, Turkey has intensified a sweeping crackdown on the media, the military, the courts and the education system following an attempted coup, targeting tens of thousands of teachers and other state employees believed to have links with Gulen for dismissal.
The education ministry said it made a decision to close 626 private schools and other establishments that are under investigation for “crimes against the constitutional order and the running of that order”, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. It states that there will be no new assignments until further notice and that academics now overseas on assignment will be recalled unless they are obligated to remain there.
More than 20,000 private teachers have also had their licences revoked.
F-16 jets pounded targets belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in Iraq’s Hakurk region, Anadolu Agency reported.
Ankara says the coup was masterminded by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen and the legal crackdown appears to be targeting individuals suspected of any connection to him.
Turkey had in 2002 lifted its last state of emergency, which had been imposed in provinces in the southeast for the fight against Kurdish armed groups in 1987.
Turkey abolished the capital punishment in 2004 with the hopes of being eligible to join the EU.
He said Turkey had not “come to the end of it”, and added that authorities were working within the law as they targeted alleged plotters. US President Barack Obama discussed the status of Gulen in a telephone call with Erdogan on Tuesday, the White House said, urging Ankara to show restraint as it pursues those responsible for the coup attempt.
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Gulen has categorically denied any involvement in the plot and has suggested it could have been staged by Erdogan himself to cement his grip on power, a theory that has been raised by other critics and some analysts, but dismissed as “nonsensical” by the president’s spokesman.
