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in part on fear of a repeat of the attacks suffered during the 2016 coup attempt,” Eissenstat also observed in December 2017.
Turkey’s Erdogan vows to confront opponents within own party amid election defeat fallout. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on April 27 to confront opponents inside his own party amid the ongoing fallout from the shock election defeats it suffered in Ankara and Istanbul in the March 31 elections. "While we're fighting outside, I have to say, we had people doing us wrong from the inside too."
He did not name any individuals, but reportedly added: "What is going on in which province, in which district, all that information comes to us. We know it all ... For the future of this organisation, we will call them to account. We're not going to carry them on our backs."
Authorities have suspended or sacked 150,000 civil servants and military personnel in recent years, accusing many of them of being involved in the failed 2016 military coup. More than 77,000 people have been jailed pending trial and widespread arrests still regularly happen.
Erdogan added that the party would keep up its legal campaign challenging the results and calling for recounts. "Until the last moment, we will continue our legal struggle. It is certain that there is a scam here. We have to get the case resolved, so that we can find peace," he said.
"Although we have won the districts, we will question why we lost the big cities," he added. "We need to focus on what to do and how to evaluate this process, especially in the metropolitan cities."
Turkey will not bow to economic terrorism says Erdogan. Turkey will not bow to economic terrorism, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on April 28, according to state-run Anadolu Agency.
Pursuing his well-worn line that the country’s economic turmoil is in fact very much down to enemies of Turkey using global markets as weapons, the populist president reportedly said: “The recent month’s attacks on our economy are the same as those with missiles, bombs, and bullets thrown at our borders. However, we have not surrendered to armed and diplomatic terrorism, we have also not surrendered and will not surrender to economic terrorism.”
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