The failed coup attempt in Turkey will not harm military operations against the Islamic State (IS) or Kurdish militants, a presidential spokesperson said on Tuesday.
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“It is already clear”, Yildirim said. “If they accept to discuss it then as the president I will approve any decision to come out of the parliament”, Erdogan told CNN from Istanbul.
Almost 20,000 members of the police, civil service, judiciary and army have been detained or suspended since Friday night’s coup, in which more than 200 people were killed when a faction of the armed forces tried to seize power.
Turkey has now fired or suspended about 50,000 people after a failed coup over the weekend as it intensifies its vast purge – battering the country’s security forces and many of its democratic institutions.
Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric and bitter foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Monday dismissed as doomed to fail Ankara’s bid to extradite him from the United States over a failed coup attempt.
We sent to the United States four folders with documents on Gulen’s extradition.
Turkish citizens have anxious that the failed military coup will expand Erdogan’s power in the country.
Turkey has blamed Friday’s events on what it calls Gulen’s “Fetullahci Terror Organisation” (FETO) and piled the pressure on Washington to extradite him.
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters that 9,322 people were under legal proceedings in relation to the attempted coup.
He said: “Will you take this opportunity to ensure that president Erdogan and his allies appreciate that press freedom and freedom of speech is one of the values that those behind this coup want to crush, and which he should seek to uphold?”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s retribution against this weekend’s coup-plotters picked up pace Monday as his European Union allies warned him not to go too far, matching talk of reintroducing the death penalty with threats to suspend the path to European Union membership. Governors will have expanded powers and the army will be under the command and control of the governors, the President said. Courts have remanded in custody 99 out of 118 generals and admirals detained so far, with some later seen wounded.
Yildirim praised those who had been fighting the tanks and protesting against the coup attempt.
Turkish cleric and opponent to the Erdogan regime Fethullah Gülen adresses at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania on July 18, 2016 allegations by the Turkish government about his involvement in the attempted July 15 coup. 208 people, consisting of mostly civilians, have been killed by pro-coup soldiers, while over 1,400 people were injured.
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Germany, Austria and France also warned separately that bringing back the death penalty, which Turkey abolished in 2004, would undo years of membership talks that began in 2005.
