ISTANBUL –
On the first anniversary of the failed coup, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again his willingness to shown the death penalty to enter. During a memorial ceremony for the bosphorus bridge which is a symbol for the resistance against the coup said Erdogan Saturday night that he is the law he will sign if the parliament wants to.
Many tens of thousands of supporters cheered him in Istanbul. They demanded with spreekkoren that the instigators of the putsch and sentenced to death. Several stalwarts of the Turkish leader, who late in the evening to Ankara flew to a speech in the parliament, but apart from the usual flags of a sling brought.
Erdogan had in the past often know introduction of the death penalty is not the way to go. After his victory in the referendum on the constitutional amendment three months ago disappeared the topic of the agenda. To Saturday, which in the whole of Turkey was stopped in the attempt Erdogan last year in fall. The opposition parties CHP and HDP, expressed heavy criticism. They also remain pointedly away at the nightly meeting of the parliamentarians in the capital.