Erdogan: West ‘supports terror’

 

 

ANKARA: -- President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again spoken out against the country’s allies in the West, saying that they supported last months attempted military coup.

 

Apparently referring to the perceived harboring of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen – who is accused of orchestrating the attempted putsch – by the US, Erdogan asked: “What kind of alliance do we have if, when I ask you to extradite a person that is involved in a national security case, you continue to hide them in your country?”

 

“Does the West support terrorism or not? Does the West side with democracy or the coup d’etat? Unfortunately the west is supporting terrorism and is on the side of the putsch,” he continued.

 

Last month’s attempted coup d’etat left hundreds dead and many more wounded.

 

Pro-Erdogan rallies have sprung up in cities across Turkey in recent weeks to support the democratically elected leader.

 

Purge intensifies

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced the closure of two military courts – the administrative court and the court of appeal – saying that their powers will be transferred into the hands of the Ministry of Defence.

 

Effectively mooting a major military power, this is the most recent development in Erdogan’s purge of the Turkish army, which has seen over 10,000 military personnel arrested for their suspected role in the coup attempt.

 

The main suspect

Fethullah Gulen is strongly thought to have been the mastermind behind the putsch attempt as the leader of the

The Gulenist movement fell foul of the government after it revealed to the Turkish media the extent of corruption that was rife in Erdogan’s government in 2013, although the alliance between the two groups had long since been broken.

 

The movement is currently at the top of a list of potential threats to the government regime.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-03

Mr. Erdogan:   An attempted coup is not necessarily an act of terrorism.   Not supporting you is not an act of terrorism.   Using a coup as an excuse to persecute thousands of your own people just might be an act of terrorism.

If you want Gulen back, then produce the evidence and give assurances of a fair and impartial trial and he will be returned.   

I would  not believe this liar if he was reading a weather report.

"Hell hath no fury like that of a dictator scorned."

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

you continue to hide them in your country?”

Gulen is not being hidden by anyone in the USA.

But he is being shielded under the laws and consitution of the US from unreasonable and unfounded prosecution - aspects of democracy that Erdogan fails to understand.

No conspiracy theory posts, please.

4 hours ago, shirtless said:

I would  not believe this liar if he was reading a weather report.

I think this whole fiasco was engineered by him to tighten his grip on the country. He has the nerve to call his government a "democracy" I hear the cost of this "consolidation of power" cost Turkey citizens a 100 billion dollars. Not a mad man in the making he is already there drunk by power. He is your turkey Turkey you voted him into power. 

Turkey is long overdue being expelled from NATO, indeed with the rhetoric coming from Erdogan I find it amazing Turey is still a member.

1 hour ago, elgordo38 said:

I think this whole fiasco was engineered by him to tighten his grip on the country. He has the nerve to call his government a "democracy" I hear the cost of this "consolidation of power" cost Turkey citizens a 100 billion dollars. Not a mad man in the making he is already there drunk by power. He is your turkey Turkey you voted him into power. 

I believe both Erdogan and Gulen want Turkey to retreat from it's position of being secular.  Right?  They use to support each other, now are enemies.

 

Erdogan is a nut.

The manifold use of the word "democracy" by too many who have nothing but their own interests in their minds is sickening. It would take much more than Erdogan's recent actions to expell Tuerkey from the NATO.

14 hours ago, Credo said:

Mr. Erdogan:   An attempted coup is not necessarily an act of terrorism.   Not supporting you is not an act of terrorism.   Using a coup as an excuse to persecute thousands of your own people just might be an act of terrorism.

If you want Gulen back, then produce the evidence and give assurances of a fair and impartial trial and he will be returned.   

 

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But all depends on who you support of course.

 

Interesting that some of those who like your post normally post that there are no excuses for a coup, electoral democracy must be respected and the people can always vote out who they don't want.

 

Turkey is seemingly heading back to becoming an Islamic republic with delusions of the Ottomans. But apparently, that's what the people vote for so must be what they want.

9 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But all depends on who you support of course.

Interesting that some of those who like your post normally post that there are no excuses for a coup, electoral democracy must be respected and the people can always vote out who they don't want.

Turkey is seemingly heading back to becoming an Islamic republic with delusions of the Ottomans. But apparently, that's what the people vote for so must be what they want.

and the people can always vote out who they don't want.    Beerboxer

 

Can they---oh good then I guess Syria's president Bashar al-Assad must be feeling quite safe, as in the middle of a war--he has has been sworn in for a third term in office with 88.7% of the vote----safer then Mr Mugabe from Zimbabwe who has been voted back in for the last 30 years this time with a modest 61.7%

 

Mr Vladimir Putin - managed to just get back in for his 3rd term--with 63.6%

 

Following three years of political turmoil the former head of Egypt's armed forces Abdel Fattah al-Sisi - who  is backed by the USA was in June sworn in after capturing just 97% per cent of the vote. (don't worry we are on the look out for who that 3 % are, and swift action will be taken)

 

And so on---and so forth-----

Over 100 leaders in the world are voted in ---in what some people might argue are less then candid  elections----

 

But as Beerboxer points out----electoral democracy must be respected and the people can always vote out who they don't want.
 

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Oh they are questioning the last election in Equatorial Guinea it would seem the 103% vote that Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo claimed might just raise a few questions---even with BeerBoxer

 

 

 

This fella is winding the clock back 100 years for Turkey as a country, is not good for the Turkish peoples (both Turks & Kurds) I think the person behind the so called attempted coup is closer to home, funny how someone just happens to leave his holiday hotel in Marmaris a few minutes before a covert assault by 'coup' soldiers.... as if they knew exactly how, where and when?? Smoke & Mirrors.... 

Sounds like a budding ally of North Korea.

On 8/3/2016 at 10:50 AM, MaxYakov said:

"Hell hath no fury like that of a dictator scorned."

 

 

 Democratically elected dictator - interesting!!

Seems like Erdogan might be Gulen-intolerant.