Turkey Begins 3-Month State Of Emergency As Crackdown Continues

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, meanwhile, reflected the triumphant mood of authorities. Executive Director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership and former US Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, believes “this [support] will give Erdogan some running room to establish order and security in the country” following the coup attempt.

“We will certainly support bringing the perpetrators of the coup to justice, but we also caution against a reach that goes well beyond that…”

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Turkey had sent the United States four dossiers on Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric living in self-imposed exile in the U.S., according to CNN Turk.

Speaking through an interpreter in an interview with broadcaster Al Jazeera, Erdogan dismissed suggestions that he was becoming authoritarian and that Turkish democracy was under threat. Officials claimed the need to protect the safety of Turkish airspace until all military aircraft, which may have been used during the attempted coup, are accounted for.

He told USA broadcaster CNN he narrowly escaped death after coup plotters stormed the resort town of Marmaris where he was vacationing. Erdogan seemed keen to leverage the incident to detain a quickly prepared list of thousands of suspects, raising fears of an increasingly authoritarian grip on the country.

However, the rebelling servicemen started to surrender July 16 and Turkish authorities said the coup attempt failed.

“Why do you insist on evidence when it is so clear and obvious anyway, while you did not ask for evidence for Bin Laden?” the prime minister said.

Sir Alan turned to the response of Mr Johnson, including taking part in the EU Foreign Affairs Council, and said: “There’s a strong sense of common objective between us and our European partners”.

The minister said he is not aware of any United Kingdom citizens arrested during Friday’s clashes, which MPs heard has killed more than 200 people with some 1,400 injured.

The number of people detained has hit 9,000, with some 115 generals and admirals now facing charges – and possibly the death penalty.

A large-scale investigation is underway into FETO-linked people working in main and district departments of the Education Ministry.

A photo emerged over the weekend of dozens of detainees, who appeared to be all men, seen stripped to the waist in a horse stable, their hands bound. She says the events she witnessed marked the first time in Turkish history that a coup was stopped by a popular mobilization.

In the wake of the coup attempt, friction could intensify between groups within Germany’s large population of Turkish, and Turkish-heritage, citizens.

Seeking to prevent damage to the economy, Erdogan said in his televised address that his government would not abandon fiscal discipline and that it was not facing liquidity problems.

Erdogan supporters hold an effigy of the Fethullah Gulen during a pro-government demonstration in Istanbul’s central Taksim Square on Tuesday.

Turkey’s Council of Higher Education also demanded all universities suspend academic assignments overseas and that an investigation be launched into all staff linked to what it calls the “Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization”, Anadolu reported.

The reclusive cleric leads a popular movement called Hizmet, which includes hundreds of secular co-ed schools, free tutoring centers, hospitals and relief agencies credited with addressing Turkey’s social problems.

Gulen supporters – known as Gulenists – describe the 75-year-old as a moderate Muslim cleric who champions interfaith dialogue.