Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday his government has detained 6,000 people, about 3,000 of them soldiers, in connection with Friday night's failed military coup. He expects the number of arrests to continue to rise as "the clean-up operations are continuing."
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also indicated that Turkey's parliament might consider introducing the death penalty. Erdogan has blamed the coup on Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, and has called on the United States to extradite him.
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