Erdogan: Sosadeg the death penalty if approved by parliament

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a gathering of his supporters in Istanbul brought together more than a million people on Sunday that he will approve the death penalty if approved by parliament after the failed coup attempt that took place three weeks ago.

He said in a speech at the "martyrs of democracy and pool" which was broadcast live and seen on giant TV screens in various parts of the country that it must destroy the network of Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen in the framework of the law. Erdogan says Gulen resident in the United States is the one who masterminded the coup attempt.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Turning again to the possibility of reinstatement of the death penalty in Turkey "if the people wanted it."

Erdogan said in front of supporters chanting "execution," "If people wanted the death penalty For parties to comply to his will," adding that "the majority of countries apply the death penalty."

In an interview with the Russian news agency "Tass" and published on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said he expected his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin will open a "new page" in bilateral relations between the two countries.

Quoted "Tass" quoted Erdogan as saying "It will be a historic visit and a new beginning. I think that will open a new page in bilateral relations during the talks with my friend Vladimir (Putin). Countries have a lot of things to do together."

Erdogan is scheduled to travel to Russia on Tuesday.

And millions of Turks protested in Istanbul on Sunday in response to an invitation by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to condemn the coup attempt and the show of force in the face of Western criticism of the purges and widespread arrests.

And it culminates "martyrs of democracy and pool" in the Winnie Topkapı district on the southern edge of the historic district in Istanbul three weeks of night-demonstrations organized by supporters of Erdogan in the fields of different parts of the country, waving the flags of Turkey.

The vast majority of the crowd of supporters of Erdogan Some carried banners reading "You are a blessing from God, Erdogan" and "flexible to die and we will do."

Said Haji Mohammed Khalil oglu, 46, a government employee traveled from the town of Ordu on the Black Sea to participate in the crowd, "We're here to show that these flags will not degeneration and the call to prayer will not stop and will not divide our country."

"This is far transcend politics. This is either freedom or death."

Erdogan has pledged to rid Turkey of a network-based cleric in the United States Fethullah Gulen, who accuses Erdogan's supporters in the ranks of the security forces and the judiciary and the administrative system of masterminding an attempt to seize power last month and planning to overthrow the state.

Tens of thousands of stop work or arrest or detention pending investigation in the wake of the coup attempt, including soldiers and members of the police and the judiciary, journalists, medical workers and officials, sparking fears among Turkey's Western allies that Erdogan exploit events to tighten his grip on power.

Written on banners and distributed to homes last night to announce the free shuttle buses, ferries and subway access to the pool phrases place like a "victory for democracy and the fields of the people" and Zain this slogan banners hung on the bridges and buildings in different parts of the country.

He called on Erdogan's secular and nationalist opposition leaders who supported the government and denounced the coup to address the crowds in a scene hoping to portray a unified nation defying Western criticism.

He wrote Kamal Kilijaddar Ihsanoglu, leader of the Republican People's Party, a secular shows tweets Party on Twitter before the assembly in which he said "The only way to eliminate the coup is the revival of the values ​​that founded the Republic. These values ​​must be that form the unity aloud in Winnie Topkapı currently."

And it shocked the coup attempt that took place on July 15, which killed more than 230 people of Turkish society, which was the last time you see it as a military coup to seize power by force in 1980.

Even opponents of Erdogan favored continuance in power on the success of the coup, which was expected to bring military interventions witnessed by Turkey in the second half of the twentieth century.