Erdogan: Will do everything for stability of Turkey

In a wide-ranging interview with Talk to Al Jazeera, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted that Turkish democracy is not under threat, but said there could be more arrests in the wake of last week’s failed coup attempt.
“We will remain inside a democratic parliamentary system, we will never step back from it,” he told Al Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal, speaking through a translator, from inside the presidential palace in Ankara.
“However, whatever is necessary for the nation’s peace and stability will be done,” he said.
Erdogan expressed doubts that the coup attempt was completely over, saying: “I don’t think we have come to the end of it yet.”
He later declared a three-month state of emergency in a televised address saying it “has the sole purpose of taking the necessary measures, in the face of the terrorist threat that our country is facing,” and vowed the “virus in the military will be cleansed”.
In his interview with Al Jazeera, Erdogan described the attempted coup as “a crime against the Turkish state”, adding that the government was making sure “every step is taken within the law”.
 
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