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In early November 2017, Turkish authorities issued an arrest warrant for Henri J. Barkey , former Director of the Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, stating that he is an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), that he was present in Istanbul during the 2016 Turkish coup attempt ...
Enemies who have been waiting for a long time to occupy the land of Turks stand with a large army at the border and wait for the coup's message. Polat Alemdar and his team will fight with the Turkish nation against the enemies in and outside the country.
The Turkish representative for Reporters Without Borders called the arrests "a witch hunt against journalists". [20] David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression said that "the attempted coup cannot justify such a broad attack against almost all voices, not just critical ones but analytic and journalistic." [21]
An attempted military coup appeared to crumble after crowds answered President Erdogan's call to take to the streets to support him. Turkish coup bid crumbles as crowds answer call to streets ...
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted ...
Since Mr. Erdogan wants to play a more positive path in the region today, they want to overthrow him. (…) A message has been conveyed to the Turkish security authorities: Do not withdraw from the streets. This pulse may consist of several waves. That's what happened in Iran in 1953. When the first coup failed, the second was ready and he ...
In August 2016 Turkish President Erdoğan gave the United States an ultimatum, demanding the extradition of Fethullah Gülen, the cleric said to be behind the failed 15 July coup attempt. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] Turkey demanded that Greece extradite eight Turkish soldiers who had fled there after the coup. [ 118 ]