Meanings of fail putsch in English

Gulen has denies the charges he was behind the failed putsch, and has condemned the coup.

The economy grew 2.9 percent in 2016, hit by the failed putsch.

The government said late on Monday it would treat any future demonstrators as accomplices in the failed putsch.

Critics say the moves are emblematic of a wider crackdown launched after a 2016 failed putsch against Erdogan's government.

Photo: AFP Thousands of people he has linked to a US-based cleric he blames for the failed putsch, have been arrested.

Turkey is incensed by what it sees as an insensitive response from Western allies to the failed putsch, in which 240 people were killed.

Some 160,000 people have been detained and a similar number of civil servants dismissed since the failed putsch, it said.

Putin's rapid phone call expressing his solidarity to Erdogan in the wake of the failed putsch had been a "psychological boost", the Turkish president said.