The European Union has expressed “concern” over Turkey’s decision to impose a state of emergency following the attempted coup, and urged the country to respect the rule of law.
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Cavusoglu said the United States had proposed setting up a commission to discuss the Gulen extradition issue and said Turkey was ready to take part.
The President underlined significant deficiencies and failure in the country’s intelligence agency.
Turkish President recept Tayyip Erdogan has said that another military coup may take place in the country, however, such forces were weakened to a greater extent. Erdogan has said the state of emergency will counter threats to Turkish democracy.
German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said several people detained in the wake of the coup had been shown on camera and appeared to have been mistreated.
The uncompromising methods Mr Erdogan has employed to crush his enemies are certainly as much a cause for concern for Turkish secularists, who represent around 50 per cent of the country’s 70 million population, as for those countries, like Britain, that desire political stability in Ankara. Turkish authorities have alleged that planes involved in the coup attempt were refueled by Turkish planes housed at the base.
Meanwhile, video emerged of soldiers firing at crowds that rushed to defend the government during the failed coup. Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the state of emergency was aimed at averting a possible second military coup. The extent of purges, aimed at supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a USA -based cleric and former Erdogan ally blamed for the uprising, raised speculation that the rebellion fallout accelerated plans to overhaul Turkish institutions, accomplishing in days what might have taken years.
A state of emergency is a temporary system of rules granting the Council of Ministers certain extended authorities to restore rights and freedoms when public order is seriously disturbed due to violent events or when there are severe indications of widespread violence against democracy or fundamental human rights and freedoms.
A state of emergency has never been declared nationwide although it was declared in Turkey’s restive, Kurdish-dominated southeast between 1987 and 2002.
What is a State of Emergency? He said it would be used to go after “rogue” elements within the state and that there would have been “carnage in the streets” had the military coup succeeded. “It isn’t martial law of 1990s”, he wrote on Twitter. But, Erdoğan had also said: “We will continue to clean the virus from all state bodies because this virus has spread”.
The education ministry said it made a decision to close 626 private schools and other establishments under investigation for “crimes against the constitutional order and the running of that order”, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
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It came into force on Thursday, nearly a week after the rebel soldiers surged into the streets with tanks, bombing parliament and shooting protesters on a bloody night of turmoil that left 265 people dead.
