Turkey should exercise restraint and avoid restoring the death penalty after last week’s failed military coup, Greece’s foreign minister said in remarks published on Saturday. But since overcoming the July 15 coup attempt, President Tayyip Erdogan has told crowds of supporters chanting for the death penalty that such demands may be discussed in parliament. “The winners of the internal conflict in Turkey must show magnanimity towards the defeated, (show) self-restraint and not reinstate the death penalty,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told Realnews newspaper in an interview released ahead of Sunday’s publication. But Turkey’s justice minister said on Friday that the issue of whether or not Turkey brings back the death penalty should be considered from a legal standpoint and not in terms of what the EU wants. A lawyer representing four of the men has said they fear for their lives if they are returned to Turkey.

Source: Indian Express July 23, 2016 18:11 UTC