In an interview with Turkey’s NTV television on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusolgu said that Ankara “will again, in an active manner, with its planes take part in operations” against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) targets.
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Ugurlu, who had been stationed at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, is the subject of a detention order in Turkey and has been expelled from the armed forces, Anadolu reported.
As they arrived the embassy building, the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, was already waiting outside to receive them.
He repeated, however, a Turkish demand that the United States extradite US -based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt that killed at least 270 people.
A total of 160 members of the military wanted in connection with the July 15 failed coup are still at large, including nine generals, officials have said.
In a separate case that has strained improving ties between Ankara and Athens, eight Turkish military officers fled by helicopter to Greece after the failed coup of July 15.
A second official, who confirmed the disappearance of the two attaches in Greece, said the foreign ministry had sent instructions to Turkish diplomatic missions around the world where suspected Gulenists were thought to be working, ordering them back to Ankara as part of the investigations. The cleric denies any involvement. Turkey would from now on actively join coalition operations with warplanes, he said.
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A Turkish military admiral, who was reported to have sought asylum in the US where he was stationed for a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation assignment, was found to have attended a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meeting on July 26, despite an earlier report suggesting he left his credentials at his base and disappeared on July 22. This news story is related to Latest/141774-Turkish-military-attaches-missing-after-being-summoned-in-post-coup-probe-official/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
