Erdogan Threatens To “Chop Off Heads Of Traitors” On Coup Anniversary

Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan on Saturday celebrated the one year anniversary of the “failed coup” that aimed to oust him from power on Saturday in typical fashion, by threatening to “chop off the heads” of traitors. Addressing hundreds of thousands of supporters gathered at the bridge over the Bosphorus in Istanbul that saw some of the fiercest fighting on the night of the July 15, 2016 attempted coup Erdogan said ‘first of all, we will chop off the heads of those traitors,’ France24 reported, prompting cries from the crowds demanding that capital punishment should be restored in Turkey.
In response, the Turkish president vowed again to sign any bill passed by parliament to restore capital punishment in Turkey, a decision that would put an end to Ankara’s European Union membership ambitions. “We are a state governed by rule of law. If it comes to me after parliament, I will sign it,” he said.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 16, 2017.