July 15 Coup Attempt 6.9 Statements regarding the coup
6.9 Statements about the coup attempt
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6.9 Statements about the coup attempt

11th President Abdullah Gül went to the State Guest House at the Istanbul Atatürk Airport and met with President Erdoğan. Following the meeting, Gül said, “Those who exposed Turkey to such a disgrace will never be forgotten.”

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6.10 Liquidation of FETÖ in judiciary
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CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT Fetullah Terror Organization (FETÖ) members are being cleaned from the judiciary.
6.10 Liquidation of FETÖ in judiciary

The General Assembly of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors urgently convened to address the “parallel structure” members and decided to unseat five members of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors in accordance with the Ankara Public Prosecutor’s detention warrant. The 2nd Chamber of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors sidelined a total of 2,745 judges, with 541 of them being in the first instance administrative justice and 2,204 of them being in the first instance judicial justice.

Some of the detained members of the of the Council of State were brought to the Ankara Police Department. Coup plotters were made to wait at the gymnasium of the Ankara Police Department’s Anti-Terrorism Branch Directorate. Some of the tanks used in the coup attempt were pulled to the garden of the Police Department.

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10 FETÖ-affiliated members of the Council of State were taken into custody
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10 FETÖ-affiliated members of the Council of State were taken into custody

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On July 16, Council of State President Zerrin Güngör called all the members of the council to the service building in order to announce that they were against the coup. The members gathered at the Presidency of the Council of State to go to the hall. Ten of the members were issued with detention orders and police detained them while they entered.
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Captured putschists were brought to Ankara Police Headquarters
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Captured putschists were brought to Ankara Police Headquarters

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After the coup attempt was prevented, nationwide operations were conducted targeting the putschists and many of them were taken into custody. Some of the putschists taken into custody were brought to Ankara Police Headquarters. Cameras captured the moments the putschists were brought to the headquarters and the reactions of the citizens.
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FETÖ's judicial structure
FETÖ's judicial structure
Since the 1980’s, judicial institutions have become FETÖ’s most strategic targets of infiltration activities as it attempted to seize control over the government. Once within the judiciary, a member of FETÖ would mentor and assign judges and prosecutors, and during the 2000s, they would sign on a large number of operations.
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6.11 Chants in support of President Erdoğan in Istanbul and Gaza streets
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MUST SEE People shouted “God is the greatest” exclamations in Kısıklı.
6.11 Chants in support of President Erdoğan in Istanbul and Gaza streets

President Erdoğan came to Istanbul from the Dalaman Airport and spent the night at the State Guest House at the Atatürk Airport. Then, he went to his house in Kısıklı, Üsküdar. He was greeted by “God is the greatest” exclamations by people who had been waiting in front of his house. When President Erdoğan saw people, who had been waiting for him, holding Turkish flags in front of his house, he got out of the car and shook their hands.

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Wherever Erdoğan is, the people are there!
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Wherever Erdoğan is, the people are there!

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President Erdoğan, who was in Marmaris on the night of the coup attempt, having left just before the assassination team that went to kill him arrived, first went to Dalaman and then Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport. Erdoğan went to the state guest house after greeting the people who welcomed him at the airport while chanting slogans. He spent that night at the airport guest house. A crowd welcomed him who in front of his house in Kısıklı in the morning.
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President Erdoğan left the Atatürk Airport State Guesthouse where he stayed the night during the FETÖ coup attempt to spend the afternoon at his residence in Kısıklı.
He greeted the crowd that had gathered in front of his house.
He greeted the crowd that had gathered in front of his house.
He greeted the crowd that had gathered in front of his house.
Citizens waiting with Turkish flags.
Citizens waiting with Turkish flags.
The crowd in front of the presidential residence.
Strict security measures were taken to protect President Erdoğan.
A citizen praying with a Turkish flag.
Strict security measures were taken to protect President Erdoğan.
In response to the crowd chanting “stand tall, don’t bow,” Erdoğan said: “Don’t worry. We only bow before God. It doesn’t befit us to bow down before anyone else. There’s no such thing in our principles.”
President Erdoğan addressed the crowd that had gathered in Kısıklı, Üsküdar to show their reaction to the FETÖ coup attempt.
President Erdoğan also said: “Brothers, I first have to mention this. These incidents have been orchestrated by a minority within the armed forces, not by the Turkish Armed Forces itself. They were a tumor within the Turkish Armed Forces. Now, the tumor is being cleansed.”
Asserting that Turkey fears no “parallel state structure”, President Erdoğan said: “Now, I want to address the U.S. I’m addressing the president of the U.S. Mr. President, I previously asked for the repatriation of the person living on 400-decare of land in Pennsylvania. I informed you that they were planning a coup, but I couldn’t make you heed my warning. Today I am repeating my call after this coup attempt: Repatriate the person in Pennsylvania to Turkey!”
“Our armed forces will advance toward a point that is fit for itself. I also would like to thank the judiciary very much, because all across the country, the judiciary, in cooperation with the national police, has ruled for the detention of these people regardless of their names, posts or ranks.”
President Erdoğan’s son Bilal.
The people who gathered in front of the presidential residence with Turkish flags.

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President Erdoğan's Route
President Erdoğan's Route

Erdoğan, who showed great leadership in the face of the coup attempt first came to Dalaman and then to Istanbul Atatürk Airport.

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6.11 Chants in support of President Erdoğan in Istanbul and Gaza streets
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DETAIL Slogans for Turkey in Gaza streets.
6.11 Chants in support of President Erdoğan in Istanbul and Gaza streets

The Hamas rule in Gaza congratulated President Erdoğan for overcoming the coup attempt. A good many people gathered in Gaza streets.

The people of Gaza shouted slogans holding the Turkish and Palestinian flags and President Erdoğan’s posters.

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