The purge is worrying Western allies concerned about stability in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member and partner in the fight against Islamic State.
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Based on its surveys since 2012, Erdogan’s highest approval rating was 71.1% in late 2013 when he was serving his third term as prime minister, Metropoll said.
Cavusoglu also said, “The two countries should pool efforts to counter extremism and terrorist groups of ISIS and al-Nusra, and achieve enduring peace in Syria”.
The strained relationship also follows Erdogan’s accusation that Fethullah Gulen, a USA -based Muslim cleric, coordinated the coup. Turkey has complained about a lack of support from its Western allies over the attempted coup. Turkey had been Russian Gazprom’s second largest customer after Germany in 2015.
Such a move would have likely strained bilateral ties further following appeals for political asylum lodged by eight Turkish military personnel who escaped from Turkey on a military helicopter a day after the failed coup. Of those, 17,740 have been formally arrested, 11,597 were released, and 5,685 remain in custody without charge.
Khaled Issa, the representative of Rojava self-administration in France, who met with the Russians several times, told ARA News that he sees no changes in the Russian policy towards the Kurds. “There have been escapees among our diplomats as well”, Cavusoglu told NTV in an interview.
The Turkish president rushed back to Istanbul from a Mediterranean holiday and called on people to defy the coup plotters’ orders of a curfew and stage a rally in support of his government.
“We need to fight against those together”, Cavusoglu said. Interior Minister Efkan Ala was quoted on Thursday as saying nearly 76,100 civil servants have now been suspended.
Turkey has blamed the July 15 coup attempt on officers loyal to a US -based Muslim cleric who it says have infiltrated the military.
He likened Gulen’s followers to ISIS, which has repeatedly bombed targets within Turkey, and the Kurdish separatist movement PKK, which is listed as a terror organization by the US. “These were high-ranking staff members”.
“As they continue to work though this, I’d refer you there”. I suspected nothing. That’s the talent of this movement.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch is calling on the U.N. Security Council to demand an independent investigation into a spike in Russian and Syrian military attacks on hospitals in rebel-held areas in Syria. The US has long complained Russia’s war is aimed at helping the Syrian government recover territory from ISIS, not just on fighting ISIS. The abortive coup and subsequent purge of the military have raised concern about the stability of Turkey, a member of the US -led coalition fighting Islamic State and which is battling an insurgency at home by Kurdish militants.
Yenel warned that Turkey would suspend the migrant deal if the European Union doesn’t grant the waiver “in the next few months”.
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On the issue of Turkish schools and institutions in Nigeria, the ambassador said his government and the Nigerian government were already talking to find a solution to the issue saying, “The government of Turkey will never do anything against the Nigerian people”. Ankara prosecutors also ordered on Thursday the detention of 648 judges and prosecutors suspended a day earlier, Hurriyet newspaper and broadcasters said.
