The dismissals touched every aspect of government life.
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The foreign ministry has said criticism of the government’s response amounts to backing the coup.
General Mehmet Disli, who conducted the operation to capture chief-of-staff Hulusi Akar during the coup, has also been detained. Dozens of others were still being questioned.
The government says it survived a bloody takeover attempt by “terrorist” elements in its institutions, and now wants to remove them.
Critics of the government were also targeted for their social media postings. At least 294 people were killed and more than 1,400 wounded in the rebellion that took the government – and much of the world – by surprise.
Pro-Erdogan supporters gather in front of the president’s residence at Kisikli Neighborhood in Istanbul after the failed coup attempt.
Erdogan has pointed a finger at his former ally-turned-rival Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999 and who is known to have a vast following in the police and judiciary. Gulen has strongly denied the accusations.
The action quickly morphed into a wider protest by millions at Erdogan’s perceived authoritarianism and faced a bloody crackdown, but Erdogan shelved the development.
“On the grounds of suspicion, he can be easily extradited”.
USA aircraft and weapons, plus American military personnel, are located in a separate location on the base.
“I urge the U.S. government to reject any effort to abuse the extradition process to carry out political vendettas”, he said in a statement. “Who planned it and directed it I do not know”, Anadolu quoted him as saying.
“This will deteriorate the EU-Turkey relationship”. No reason was given for the detention.
Erdogan has repeatedly called for parliament to consider his supporters’ demands to apply the death penalty [scrapped in 2004] for the plotters. “The squares will be filled”, he said. “(The) Turkish flag can not be lowered”.
Turkish police are warning the two officers may be armed and have distributed their photos in a bid to recapture them. He expressed “deep regret” at suggestions the death penalty could be reinstated.
Erdogan told CNN in an interview on Monday that he could have been killed if he’d stayed another 10 to 15 minutes at the hotel where he was vacationing with his family in Marmaris, on the Mediterranean coast.
“Today is there no capital punishment in America?”
“Obviously, we would invite the government of Turkey, as we always do, to present us with any legitimate evidence that withstands scrutiny”, Kerry said during a stop in Luxembourg. “However, we will provide them with a pile of evidence”. Kurtulmus said an extradition request will follow.
“Cracking down on dissent and threatening to bring back the death penalty are not justice”, said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty’s director for Europe and Central Asia.
He said 9,000 people have been detained so far, of whom 80 were later released.
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says over 7,500 suspects have been arrested over the coup attempt, explaining that more than 750 judges and prosecutors are among the detainees.
