Any temporary suspension of the European Convention of Human Rights must follow the rules of derogation, they said without elaborating, after a Turkish deputy prime minister said Turkey would do so during emergency rule.
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Kiriakou said that he expected the U.S. government to try and influence Erdogan to ease up on his crackdown.
The Turkish army said Tuesday that the vast majority of its members had no links with Friday’s attempted coup and warned that the putschists would face severe punishment.
“It could curb the state of awareness which is bad but at least people would fight more for their freedoms”, he said.
“The force of the tanks could not beat the force of the people”, he said.
More than 50,000 civil service employees, including police, judges and the military, have been fired since the coup, the AP reported.
He urged the minister to “make it clear to President Erdogan, it is not just European Union membership that’s at risk from that course of action, but North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership as well”. But Mr Erdogan’s critics claim he is using the backlash against coup plotters to consolidate power and stifle dissent.
In a sign of global concern, a German official said a serious fissure had opened in Turkey and he feared fighting would break out within Germany’s large Turkish community. “We need unity. and brotherhood now”, he said.
“If the (ruling) AK Party is ready on the issue of the death penalty, so are we”, MHP leader Devlet Bahceli told his lawmakers.
The president and other officials have strongly suggested the government is considering reinstating the death penalty, a practice abolished in 2004 as part of Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.
It is unclear how many soldiers participated in the attack, during which two of Erdogan’s bodyguards were killed, and it is unclear how loyal the troops were, given that they were briefed on the coup so late in proceedings.
Some 1,500 finance ministry officials have also been removed from their posts. A court remanded 26 generals and admirals in custody on Monday, Turkish media said.
“Either way, if evidence is beginning to point to officers who were not followers of Gülen, this means that most of the people already arrested and purged were targeted only for their political beliefs, not because they had anything to do with the attempted coup”, wrote Rubin.
What is the Turkish government saying about all these arrests and dismissals?
Tory frontbencher Sir Alan said of the deaths and injuries caused by the military uprising: “I’m sure the whole House will join me in expressing our sympathies and condolences to the people of Turkey on this tragic loss of life”. The government would announce important decisions on Wednesday to rescue the country from what he said were extraordinary circumstances.
In the aftermath of a failed military coup last Friday, July 15, the government of Turkey is pointing fingers wherever it can.
In a hugely unusual move after the announcement, Erdogan read out the morning call to prayer through loudspeakers at a mosque inside his presidential complex, the pro-government Yeni Safak daily said.
The defence ministry also said it had launched investigations into every single military judge and prosecutor in Turkey. He was able to fly into Istanbul in the early hours of Saturday, after rebel pilots had his plane in their sights but did not shoot it down.
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He said on Monday that he might have died if he had left Marmaris any later. “The people have the opinion that these terrorists should be killed”, he said. Officials at the Turkish Journalist Association said they were discussing the new directive and had no immediate comment.
