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Turkey’s foreign minister on Wednesday pledged cooperation with the top European rights watchdog to ensure the effort to bring the leaders of July’s failed coup to justice is clear and straightforward.
“We (will) cooperate with the Council of Europe to make this process very transparent,” said Mevlut Cavusoglu, after meeting in Strasbourg with the group’s head Thorbjorn Jagland. Some 20,000 people have been arrested since the July 15 coup attempt and 70,000 civil servants fired as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purges those he says have links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim preacher Ankara blames for the failed putsch. Jagland warned Turkey in August that “the net must not be cast too wide” after he was one of the first senior European officials to visit following the coup attempt. “We have never forgotten that the rule of law should prevail. Everyone should be brought to justice, even the ones who tried to assassinate the president,” Cavusoglu told reporters.