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Erdogan 'snatch squad' fugitives captured

AFP, Istanbul
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Turkey admits some crackdown dismissals may he unfair, summons German envoy over Cologne rally
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Turkey has arrested 11 fugitive soldiers suspected of involvement in an attack on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hotel during the night of the failed coup, the deputy prime minister said yesterday.
Erdogan was staying in the western seaside resort of Marmaris on July 15 but dashed to Istanbul just before the hotel came under attack from rebel soldiers determined to oust him from power.
“Eleven of them were captured in Ula," Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told a press conference after a cabinet meet-
ing, referring to a town near Marmaris.
He said one soldier was still at large. Erdogan earlier said his swift escape had saved him from being killed or taken hostage.
An interior ministry official, who declined to be named, described the arrested men as members of a "death squad" and said the overnight operation to catch them followed a tip-off from local villagers.
The soldiers had been hiding in the wild landscape above Marmaris since the military action, and the villagers spotted them while they were out boar-hunting. "There was an exchange of fire during the operation," the official added. "Drones and helicopters were used to pinpoint the location."
'DISMISSALS MAY BE UNFAIR' Turkey admitted yesterday there may have been some "unfair" treatment in its post-coup crackdown as it voiced anger with Germany for barring President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from addressing a rally in Cologne.
Retaliating after a military attempt to unseat him, Erdogan has launched a purge that has seen tens of thousands people suspended from their jobs and almost 19,000 detained.
Apparently responding to widening international alarm about the crackdown, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim admitted there may have been some unfair treatment in the state sector.
"There must definitely be some among them who were subjected to unfair procedures," he said in comments published by state-run Anadolu news agency.
"We will make a distinction between those who are guilty and those who are not."
GERMAN RALLY
In Germany, home to Turkey's largest diaspora, tens of thousands of Erdogan supporters rallied in Cologne on Sunday to demonstrate their opposition to the coup in an event held under tight security.
Hours before the demonstration, Germany's constitutional court rejected an application to show via video link live speeches from Turkey by politicians including Erdogan, over fears they could work up the crowd.
The decision sparked anger in Turkey, with presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin calling the move unacceptable and a "violation of the free-
dom of expression and the right to free assembly".
A spokeswoman for the German embassy told AFP that the charge d'affaires had "been summoned to the Turkish foreign ministry" yesterday over the rally.
But Berlin played down the incident, saying such "invitations" were nothing out of the ordinary.
"In the day-to-day dealings between countries, it is a daily event - normal for a representative of a country to be called in to the foreign ministry of his host country," German foreign ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer told journalists.
The tension comes as ties between Germany and Turkey were already strained over the German parliament's decision to brand as genocide the World War I-era Armenian massacre by Ottoman forces.
TENSIONS WITH WASHINGTON
Also yesterday, General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, was to meet with Yildirim and Turkish chief of staff General Hulusi Akar.
Tensions between the two Nato allies have been aggravated by the foiled putsch, with some Turkish officials even alleging that Washington could have had a hand in the plot. The suggestion has been firmly denied by top US officials.
Turkey is now requesting the extradition of Gulen - who has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999 -from his leafy compound in Pennsylvania.
"We do not want (the US) to be in a position that will make us question our friendship," Yildirim said.
"If they keep on dragging (their) feet on the Gulen issue... then things will take a different course, because events of July 15 are crystal clear."