Turkish coup d'état attempt

A delegation from Justice Ministry visited Strasbourg last week in order to brief the Council of Europe about post-coup attempt prosecutions in Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to the Council of Europe Erdoğan İşcan has said.

A working group came together "for consultations to develop compatibility in standards between Turkey and the Council of Europe," İşcan told the Hürriyet Daily News.

The Turkish Air Force has changed the name of the Akıncı Air Base in Ankara, which was used as the headquarters of the July 15 failed coup attempt, Doğan News Agency has reported.

"I have said that 90 percent of Turks agree on only two things: That there is a God and that FETÖ [the Fethullahist Terror Organization] is behind the coup," Oğuz Kaan Salıcı told me, while speaking about the meetings of the foreign affairs commission in the United States, right after the coup. 

EU officials have begun to visit the Turkish capital of Ankara with increased frequency in an effort repair the recent damage in ties, which became strained after the July 15 failed coup attempt and the process of visa liberalization for Turkish citizens to the bloc stalled.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated his previous call for the formation of a "safe zone" inside Syria to help solve the migrant problem, while also calling for the creation of a "no-fly zone" in order to secure the region's security. 

Dutch police on Sept. 5 detained a 42-year-old Dutchman of Turkish descent for alleged death threats and hate speech after the failed Turkish coup in July, which has ratcheted up tension among Turks in the Netherlands. 

The Turkish people and political parties who defied the July 15 coup attempt set "an example to people around the world, striving for freedom to live in peace and dignity," according to the United Nations' undersecretary-general.

The Turkish Parliament will discuss over a number of new measures to prevent future attempts to stage a military coup in Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said, as legal procedures have already been launched to heavily punish plotters. Yıldırım said July 15 will be marked as the democracy fest for Turkey as the coup attempt was foiled thanks to the prudence of the Turkish people. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuoşğlu has said Ankara has demanded return of eight coup attempter soldiers , who landed on Alexandroupolis in Greece.

"We demanded the urgent return of eight traitor soldiers who escaped to Greece on a helicopter," he said.

The minister said Greek authorities said they were ready to cooperate. 

Any country that would harbor Fethullah Gülen, the leader of the parallel state that is regarded as the mastermind of July 15's coup attempt would not be Turkey's friend, the Turkish prime minister has said, obviously urging the United States where the self-exile religious leader lives since late 1990s.