Turkey tells watchdog coup trials will be 'transparent'

Turkey's foreign minister on Wednesday pledged cooperation with the top European rights watchdog to ensure the effort to bring the leaders of July's failed coup to justice is clear and straightforward. Around 20 000 people have been arrested since the July 15 coup attempt and 70 000 civil servants fired as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purges those he says have links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim preacher Ankara blames for the failed putsch.