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Assad says Erdoğan uses failed coup attempt to implement ‘extremist agenda’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is using July 15’s failed military coup attempt as a pretext in...

Vatican Secretary of State says aftermath of Turkey’s coup attempt “source of concern”

Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, told in a public event that he found the events in Turkey in the aftermath of last...

Foreign Minister: Coup plotters who fled to Greece not fit for political asylum

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu told the media on Friday that the eight military officials who took shelter in Greece were not fit...

Obama advises Erdoğan to stick to democratic values in coup attempt investigations

US President Obama spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by phone on Tuesday and stated that US expects that any inquiry into the...

UK says reinstating death penalty would cause incalculable damage to Turkey’s int’l standing

Alan Duncan, British foreign office minister, said that reinstating death penalty after Friday’s failed military coup attempt would cause incalculable damage to standing of...

EU Rapporteur Piri: Turkish authorities’ reactions raise fear of witch-hunt by Erdoğan

Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament, has said that first reactions by the Turkish authorities raise the fear that the government of...

HRW, RSF, others express concern over Turkey’s harsh crackdown after coup attempt

Independent watchdogs such as the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Freedom House and Amnesty International have expressed concern in separate statements...

US lawmaker says Gülen should not be extradited, calls his movement strongest element against radical Islamists

United States (US) Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, released a statement on Monday,...

Iran claims Saudi Arabia and Qatar stood with coup plotters against Turkish gov’t

Javad Zarif, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs has asserted that a number of countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, stood with the coup plotters,...

2 Turkish pilots arrested for 2015’s downing of a Russian war jet

Turkey has arrested two of its army pilots for shooting down a Russian war plane near the Syrian border in November 2015; an incident...

Kerry and Mogherini call on Turkey to adhere to rule of law in crackdown on coup plotters

United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called on Turkey to maintain principles of...

EU’s Hahn says Turkish government had list of arrests before coup attempt

The European Union (EU) commissioner dealing with Turkey's membership bid, Johannes Hahn, has said that lists of recent detentions and arrests of judges and...

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