PM Davuto?lu attacks 'parallel state' again after panel vote on graft

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu continued his verbal attacks against the Gülen movement one day after ruling party deputies on a parliamentary commission elected not to send four ex-ministers to trial at the Supreme Council, in the face of corruption allegations.

?No matter what the commission?s decision had been, what we experienced last year - and before that when our M?T [National Intelligence Organization] undersecretary?s was unlawfully summoned on Feb. 7, 2012 - the Gezi provocations, the Dec. 17 and 25 [2013] provocations, the Jan. 19 [2014] operation on M?T trucks and the March 27 [2014] wiretapping of the Foreign Ministry: You should have no doubt that this entire process was a coup process, it was the process of building tutelage. We stood tall against this process,? Davuto?lu told his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies on Jan. 6, a day after the vote.

Echoing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Davuto?lu made the comments during his first address to deputies since the vote at the first parliamentary group meeting of 2015.

In line with the government's stance that followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen have been accused of staging a coup attempt against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, Erdo?an has also argued that the prosecution of the ministers would harm the party?s oft-repeated line that both the Dec. 17 and the Dec. 25 probes were actually part of the coup plot hatched by the Gülen movement to topple the government.
 
?There should be no doubt at all that a coup attempt has failed and those who initiated this coup attempt are both embarrassed and charged today before history and the nation,? Davuto?lu said.

?We would respect the...