'West would reinstate death penalty' in Turkey's shoes

'West would reinstate death penalty' in Turkey's shoes

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slams Western countries for 'worrying more about putschists than coup victims'

ANKARA (AA) – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Western countries would have reinstated the death penalty and declared an indefinite state of emergency if they faced the same terror threats and attacks as Turkey in the past months.

Addressing the Union of Turkish Bar Associations in Ankara, Erdogan said: "Set aside the coup attempt, even if terror attacks in the last months by the PKK and Daesh had happened in any European country, they would have brought in the death penalty and an indefinite state of emergency."

He also slammed U.K.-based Amnesty International over its reports of alleged torture against detained coup plotters.

"First they [Amnesty International] have to come here and see what happened in Turkey's parliament, how 53 of our security officers died after our security headquarters was bombed," Erdogan said, adding that numerous people were shot dead on Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge and the presidential complex was fired upon on the night of the foiled coup.

"Come and see this, do your part. Then make your statement. Sorry to say, but nobody [will] show respect to you if you just make statements by what you hear," Erdogan said.

Turkish officials have both rejected and condemned claims that suspected coup plotters have been subjected to torture in detention.

The president also criticized Western leaders, without mentioning any names, of worrying more about the condition of putschists rather than the victims of the defeated coup.

"Nobody is asking [about] the situation of our 240 martyrs and 2,195 brothers and sisters who were injured," Erdogan said. "But they are very interested about detentions, arrests and suspensions."

Erdogan said Turkey was a country of law and "will continue to be so".

"On the night of July 15, our judges and prosecutors, along with the people and our security forces, took a stand against the putschists," Erdogan said.

"The fight against the coup plotters was carried out within the range of law from the first moment."

The deadly coup attempt began late July 15 when rogue elements of the Turkish military tried to overthrow the country's democratically elected government, martyring 240 people and injuring almost 2,200 others.

The government says the attempted coup was organized by followers of U.S.-based preacher Fetullah Gulen.

Gulen is accused of a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through infiltrating Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary, forming a “parallel state”.​

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