15200 education staff suspended in Turkey

According to official figures, Friday night’s coup attempt left 232 people dead and 1,541 wounded.

“This must be done in accordance with Turkish and worldwide law”.

The 550-member parliament is set to approve Erdogan’s request for a three-month state of emergency. “Reports that many have been subject to detention orders also raises concerns of arbitrary detention”.

The broad crackdown and calls to reinstate the death penalty for plotters have drawn appeals from Western allies for Ankara to uphold the rule of law in the country, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member on the border with Syria, whose cooperation in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is crucial to Washington.

The top American diplomat said Turkey must ‘uphold the highest standards for the country’s democratic institutions and the rule of law’.

The White House said President Barack Obama discussed the extradition request during a phone call with Mr Erdogan, during which he pledged USA assistance in investigating the coup attempt.

Erdogan said the new powers would allow the government to rid the military of the “virus” of subversion, blaming the coup attempt on a USA -based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen.

CNN also quoted Erdogan as saying official papers would be filed within days to request the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen from the United States.

At a joint news conference with Kerry in Washington, Dion echoed that point.

Dion elaborated briefly in an interview.

If Russia attacked the Baltic countries, Trump said he would determine whether or not to assist them only after reviewing whether those countries “have fulfilled their obligations to us”. And we just said: ‘The ball is in your camp.

Pickerill declined to provide further details.

Turkey’s media regulation body on Tuesday also revoked the licenses of 24 radio and TV channels accused of links to Mr Gulen.

He was expected to make a major announcement this evening, with speculation that a national state of emergency would be called.

“Coup d’états are never a good thing”.

And German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, in more direct comments, said that in Turkey “nearly every day we are seeing new measures that flout the rule of law and that disregard the principle of proportionality”.

“We need to make sure that all those who will be arrested related to his coup will have the opportunity to defend themselves in a robust and legitimate trial”.

The latest move against academics, which the government said was aimed at preventing alleged coup plotters from fleeing the country, coincided with an announcement that the education ministry had shut down 626 institutions, a majority of which are private colleges.

More than 9,000 suspects have been detained, including some of Turkey’s most senior generals, and thousands of officials, police and teachers dismissed from their posts.

The coup attempt has led to public anger and calls for the government to bring back the death penalty.