Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Ghaleb Kandil pointed to a recent meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, saying that no “tangible” change has been seen in Ankara’s policies toward the Syrian crisis since the talks. Police teams on Monday apprehended 136 personnel in operations conducted at.
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Relations between Brussels and Ankara have already been strained since Turkey responded to the coup by launching a relentless crackdown against alleged plotters in state institutions and the media, amid calls from the European Union to act within the rule of law.
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U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 29, 2016. The breadth of the probe has anxious the West, which fears President Tayyip Erdogan is using it to quash dissent.
Prosecutors in the western city of Usak prepared a 2,527-page indictment against Gulen and 111 other suspects after a yearlong investigation, and the indictment has been approved by a court in the city, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
It has also collected funds from businessmen in the name of “donations” and transferred the money to the United States by means of front companies, and by using banks in the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan and Germany, Anadolu reported.
Wednesday’s decrees also allow the air force to hire new pilots or take back pilots who had resigned or were discharged before the coup to replace pilots who have been arrested or dismissed for alleged participation in the coup or links to Gulen.
Turkey has sought Gulen’s extradition from the US, which has asked for evidence against the cleric’s role in the coup plot against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who heads the Islam-rooted Justice and Development Party.
“Turkish Airlines’ decision to fire us without showing a real reason is damaging people’s reputation, because we were portrayed as if we are linked with that terror organization”, Kilic said in a telephone interview on Monday.
The police initiated simultaneous raids on 44 different companies in Istanbul and issued arrest warrants against 120 CEO’s.
He said it targeted only be those who maintained links to Gulen after December 17, 2013 – the date when police and prosecutors seen as sympathetic to the cleric launched a corruption probe into Erdogan and his inner circle. But on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim appeared to move away from reinstating capital punishment.
“No doubt, Fetullah Gulen will be held to account for the attempted putsch”.
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“A person dies only once when executed”, Yildirim told MPs from the ruling AKP party.
