Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has issued an apology for his former alliance with the Gulenist movement, suspected of orchestrating last month's attempted coup d'etat.

Erdogan said that he had previously tolerated the Gulenist movement, led by the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, because of their foreign and domestic education and aid projects.

At a meeting where he spoke alongside Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Erdogan said: "Personally, although they had facets I did not agree with, …
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