The White House said the Justice and State Departments would review these materials as Gulen’s extradition is considered.
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Erdogan’s task is to re-impose stability amid the turmoil, and to reassure the country and Turkey’s allies overseas that he is not embarking on a witch-hunt against his many critics.
Officials on Wednesday raised the death toll from the attempted coup to 240 government supporters.
“The evidence will probably be considered legitimate from the Turkish point of view but not legitimate from the US point of view”, said Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, head of the German Marshall Fund’s Ankara office.
The statement also said Obama told Erdogan the U.S.is ready to cooperate with Turkish institutions investigating the coup attempt.
The New York Times cites Erdogan’s claim that thousands of Turkish citizens, including “soldiers, policemen, bureaucrats, teachers, judges, lawyers and many more professions”, are part of the Gulenist movement, which Erdogan views as an insurgent conspiracy.
He compared the coup attempt to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, saying it was clear Gulen was behind it, just as the United States knew al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was behind 9/11.
Turkey accuses Gulen of running a “terror group” and has stepped up the pressure on Washington to extradite him, sending several “dossiers” it says are packed with evidence about his alleged involvement.
A woman takes a selfie in front of the special police forces base building in Ankara on Tuesday, after it was bombed during the failed July 15 coup attempt.
More than 6,000 soldiers and around 1,500 others have been detained since the abortive coup.
After the Turkish government said they had took back control of the country, it pledged to severely punish those responsible for the uprising.
“This practice is not against democracy, law and freedom. We have no doubt that tranquility in the Islamic world countries does not suit terrorists and some superpowers”, the Iranian president stressed.
Erdogan, who had been accused of autocratic conduct even before this week’s tough crackdown, said the state of emergency would counter threats to Turkish democracy.
“They believe that, one way or another, they will lose their lives (in Turkey)”, said Vasiliki Ilia Marinaki, a lawyer representing four of the men, as they appeared in court with their faces covered.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region-Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency.
“We need unity. and brotherhood now”, he said. Erdogan also says the main target will be what he calls the “cancerous” opposition of the USA -based cleric Fetullah Gulen, accused of being behind the coup attempt.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought Erdogan’s cooperation in March to stem the flood of refugees that has roiled European politics over the past year while the U.S.is launching air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria from the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey.
