In the first half of this year, Turkey’s exports to Russian Federation, including food, fell by more than half to $730 m (£562 m).
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Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said that the bloody coup attempt, which claimed 239 lives and injured almost 2,200 others, was the beginning of a new era of compromise. Erdogan vowed to keep Turkey’s promises on the migrant deal as recently as July 26.
The message of leaders’ and other speakers’ speeches were clear – thanking the Turkish population for standing up for the concept of democracy.
The head of a visiting delegation of Turkish lawmakers says his country will not retroactively impose the death penalty on plotters of the botched July 15 coup. “Every coup which does not kill us, makes us stronger. It should abandon the policy of double standards”, Erdogan said.
Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, has denied involvement in the violent coup attempt that left more than 270 people dead. “The faith and determination of this nation”.
Putin was one of the first foreign leaders to phone Erdogan offering support after the coup attempt and shares none of the scruples of European Union leaders about the ensuing crackdown.
Erdogan’s government has been emboldened by the support and has seized the post-coup momentum in strengthening its grip on power.
“Sovereignty belongs to the nation”.
“This is the biggest disappointment (of) the Turkish people, I tell you-this is their feelings”, he said.
Erdogan told Russian media that he wants to “immediately take steps” towards getting the TurkStream project – that was to have pumped 31.5 billion cubic metres of gas a year – going again and to finish the Akkuyu power plant. “If it comes to my approval I hereby express that I will approve it”.
In Berlin on Monday, a spokeswoman for the German foreign ministry repeated that reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey would end its bid to join the EU.
“When the bombings happened in France, in Britain, Germany-wherever-we always support them”, he said.
Turkey has received criticism for what it did after the coup, where it conducted massive arrest campaigns, detaining thousands of individuals from the military, schools and universities, health services and the media.
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Speaking at a press conference in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Dr. Kani Torum, deputy chair of the parliament’s foreign relations committee, also said Gülen was behind the attempted overthrow of the Turkish government, calling his group a “messianic cult” as well as a “Daesh-like organization” guilty of brainwashing followers.
