In Washington, US President Barack Obama urged all parties in Turkey to support the “democratically elected government.” Nato called for “full respect” for Turkey’s democratic institutions. European Council President Donald Tusk said the country was “a key partner for the European Union”.
“Go to the streets and give them their answer,” Erdogan said via the video chat app. “I am coming to a square in Ankara. This was done from outside the chain of command. Those who are responsible, we will give them the necessary punishment.”
“We have discussed the situation on the borders. Until morning we will monitor the situation and for the security of our citizens we have limited border access in the direction of Turkey and have closed the air border,” Kvirikashvili said adding that the decision might be reconsidered on Saturday morning.
Turkish military have announced that the power completely passed into their hands, AP reports. It is mentioned in the statement issued by the military that a necessity for a coup arise in order to “restore constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, and rule of law and order to prevail in the country again”. The statement also mentioned that all the international treaties and commitments of Turkey remain in place. “Our commitment to have friendly relations with all the countries of the world will be preserved”, reads the statement.
According to Tunisian security sources, Lahouaiej Bouhlel hailed from the Tunisian town of Msaken, which is close to the seaside city of Sousse, where 38 people, including 30 Britons, were gunned down by terrorists in June 2015.
“We do everything possible, to prove Armenia’s authorities and the society, that’s it’s possible, and in this regard there are no discordances. Hopefully, Armenia-EU relations will obtain a new process, and the signals, coming from the society and the officials will be taken into consideration,” the Ambassador said. In his words, the EU observes that the society strives to be closer to the EU.
At least 84 people have died, including children, after a lorry slammed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice. The driver ploughed on for 2km (1.2 miles) on the Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before being shot dead by police.
“In fact, the issue is not in the number of observers, in case of activity of any side the mediators know who the initiator is and what they can do. In this case the observers can only record violations, which side is the violator and this will be restricted within that process.”
“Basically, serious changes won’t be recorded after Warsaw, new security environment isn’t being established, however, contrasts aren’t being eliminated as well, like Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, stated yesterday after Russia-NATO Council session. Discordances between NATO and Russia continue, and as I have already mentioned, their grounds are not so clear to me,” Lukyanov said.
“We can confront, we can compete, withstand and win. We sometimes underestimate our possibilities. We have the same opinion about ourselves as our adversaries. Our compatriots choose an easy way and say bad things. We can have a military-industrial complex, we can produce competitive armaments: for this we need to have authorities with a political will.”
