The Turkish Prime Minister, Binali Yildirim, on Saturday said any country that stood by Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, would not be a friend of Turkey.
Yildirim said such country would be considered at war with Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member.
The government said followers of Gulen, who had been living in self-imposed exile in the US for years, were behind the attempted coup by a faction of the military on Friday.
The government accused Gulen of trying to build a “parallel structure” within the judiciary, education and media systems.
It also accused him of using the military as a way to overthrow the state, a charge the cleric has denied.
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