Turkish military faces overhaul after failed coup

Arrest warrants were issued for 89 journalists and dozens of media organizations were ordered shuttered. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday that the failed military coup has left at least 290 people killed and more than 6,000 have been detained so far due to their involvement in the coup. Turkey wants the cleric extradited but the USA has told Turkey to present evidence against Gulen and let the US extradition process take its course.

Turkish financial markets have started to recoup some of their losses following the failed military coup attempt earlier this month, but analysts of the British consulting company Capital Economics think that the the country’s national currency lira in particular is more likely to fall than rise from here on. The U.S. has told Turkey to present evidence against Gulen and let the U.S. extradition process take its course.

Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag repeated Ankara’s request to the United States to swiftly extradite Gulen, once a powerful ally of Erdogan.

“Some judges and prosecutors with ties to the Gulen movement have fled to Germany”.

The scale of this ongoing “cleansing” operation has been broad enough to prompt many Turks – as well as concerned onlookers across the world – to wonder when and how the crackdown will end, and what kind of country Turkey will then be.

“My concern has to do with the fact that the actions here are very tough and the principle of proportionality is not always central”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Berlin on Thursday. “This principle of proportionality must be respected under all circumstances”.

Yildirim, accompanied by the top brass, visited the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, modern Turkey’s founder, before the council meeting, and vowed to overcome all terror threats.

For the first time the meeting is taking place at the Çankaya palace of the Prime Minister, rather than the military headquarters.

Other changes were also made, including the subjugation of the Turkish Coast Guard and Gendarmerie to the Interior Ministry, emergencies included (it used to be under the command of the ministry only during peacetime).