They said they were tasked with transporting wounded people when their choppers came under fire from police.
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“Turkey has a large armed force, professional armed forces and”.
The step allows for the president and the cabinet to make laws by decree, bypassing parliament, as well as to impose curfews and restrict public gatherings.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed it was “vital that the state of emergency is limited for the required time and then immediately lifted”.
Human rights in Turkey are in peril following the coup attempt which resulted in the deaths of at least 208 people and nearly 8,000 arrests, says Amnesty International.
Erdogan told the broadcaster more than 9,000 people have been detained, almost 20,000 charged by a court and some 60,000 purged from state institutions, according to Peter and Al-Jazeera.
Erdogan raised the issue in a phone call with U.S. President Barack Obama, and his spokesman said the government was preparing a formal extradition request for Gulen.
About 60,000 soldiers, police, judges, civil servants and teachers have been suspended, detained or are under investigation since Friday’s military coup attempt.
The targeting of education ties in with Erdogan’s belief that the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, whose followers run a network of schools worldwide, seeks to infiltrate the Turkish education system and other institutions in order to bend the country to his will. The cleric’s movement, which espouses moderation and multi-faith harmony, says it is a scapegoat.
Dion said the requests from the Turkish government came before and after last week’s coup attempt to overthrow the Erdogan government. It also raises questions about the effectiveness of the military, courts and other institutions being purged. Perhaps we will learn something more directly about the plotters’ motives in the weeks ahead. “How they will fill the vacancies, I don’t know”.
The country will need a major restructuring of its security forces, having gutted the leadership of its military, with at least 118 generals and admirals detained, stripping the general-rank command of the Turkish military by a third, and suspending 8,777 Interior Ministry members, mostly police officers, state media reports say. Though only a relatively small faction of the Turkish military participated in the failed revolt, military leaders from across the country have been removed from their posts as Erdogan and his government have sought to remove soldiers and officials they describe as coup plotters and sympathizers to its supposed architect, Islamic scholar and US resident Fetuleh Gulen.
The failed putsch and the purge that followed have unsettled the country of 80 million, which borders Syria’s chaos and is a Western ally against Islamic State.
“I can not confirm a formal request has been made, but Turkish officials have sent over electronic documents that the U.S. is now reviewing”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. -Turkish relations. The flap already called into question, briefly, whether USA planes would still be allowed to fly out of Incirlik air base to strike ISIS targets in Syria. State TRT television said 95 academics had been removed from their posts at Istanbul University alone.
He concluded: “It is more important than ever for the Turkish government to respect human rights and the rule of law in ways the coup plotters did not”. Treason – such as that implied by Erdogan’s demand for Gulen’s extradition – is not listed as such an act in the countries’ treaty.
It has also hit financial markets, with the lira at one point losing five percent in value against the dollar although it rallied slightly Monday, while Sovereign debt rater Moody’s said it was reviewing Turkey’s credit rating for a possible downgrade.
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“If the death penalty issue is made a decision to be considered in the parliament, then the four political party [AK Party, CHP, MHP and HDP] will look into it”, he added.
