Translation: Now is my opportunity to get rid of my non-Islamist opponents…
Via France24:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told FRANCE 24 that his country’s state of emergency, imposed in the wake of an attempted coup to oust him could be extended until he has rid Turkey’s “institutions of this cancer”.
Turkey launched a sweeping crackdown following the failed July 15 insurrection, declaring a three-month state of emergency and detaining or dismissing 33,000 people in the military and other state institutions.
In the latest measures, the government revoked nearly 11,000 passports and detained 283 members of the presidential guard, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey alleges that the coup attempt by some military units, in which 246 people were killed, was conceived by Fethullah Gülen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since the late 1990s.