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11 of August, 13:48

Turkey has threatened to withdraw from NATO In Ankara yesterday there was a rally of supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On the streets thousands of people. Slogans with a demand to extradite Fethullah Gulen.

Thousands of participants with national flags came to the residence to Express support to President Erdogan. It can be called a continuation of the watch of democracy, which for 3-odd weeks, the supporters of the regime were carrying on the streets of major Turkish cities.

They are every evening, starting on 16 July, came to the square, defending the state, condemned the rebels. burned and hanged effigies of Fethullah Gulen, an opposition politician living in the United States, which Ankara considers as the organizer of the coup attempt.

The crown of this state was the meeting of the defenders of democracy in Istanbul on Sunday. According to police estimates, there came about 5 million people. To sit at home supporters of Erdogan is not going to, they continue to go to the area and speak the word mode support.

The Turkish leadership did not rule out that the country may withdraw from the NATO. Media quoted the Turkish foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said that he believes such a scenario is possible. He stressed that if the West has "lost" Turkey, it'll happen because of his own mistakes.
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