During a surprise appearance at the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee on Wednesday 12 October, Turkey’s Deputy European Affairs Minister Ali Şahin defended the actions of his government in response to the attempted coup on 15 July.
Laying the blame for the attempted coup at the door of supporters of Fethallah Gulen, the minister said that the state had to be put back on its feet and terrorist elements cleaned out. For this reason, he stated, the government has invoked...