No fewer than 1,440 people were wounded and 161 killed in a failed coup on Friday night in Turkey.
Turkish government , while describing the incident as a “black stain on Turkish democracy”, said 2,839 soldiers, including two army generals and other high-ranking officers have been arrested.
The Turkish authorities also stated that 104 suspected coup plotters had been killed while 2,745 judges across the country had been dismissed in the wake of the failed coup.
Erdogan claimed that a “parallel structure”, said to be a reference to Fethullah Gulen, which the British Broadcasting Corporation described as “a powerful but reclusive United States-based Muslim cleric” was responsible for the crisis.
In a televised speech on Saturday night, he called on the US to extradite Gulen.
While denying the allegation of being responsible for the coup, Gulen said he condemned “in the strongest terms, the attempted military coup in Turkey.”
