"Once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious," a US official said of request tied to Khashoggi killing
failed coup attempt
Thousands of Turks request asylum and live in Greece
The number of Turkish refugees seeking asylum in Greece for the whole of 2017 was 1826
Erdogan saw the coup as an opportunity not only to assert his personal control over the military but to try to reshape the officer corps in his own self-image
A neverending purge!
Since the failed coup against the Turkish president was attempted more than 77.000 people have been arrested and 150.000 have been removed from office
Tens of thousands of people have either been dismissed or arrested for using the ByLock app since the coup attempt...
Building on their wider rapprochement, the two powers can work together to tamp down flare-ups of regional conflicts
Following the failed coup, Turkey has arrested around 40,000 people & sacked at least 100,000 in the military, civil service & private sector
The Turkish government blames the coup attempt on the followers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen