Turkey's President Erdogan says he is prepared to bring back the death penalty

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is preparing to bring back the death penalty.

independent.co.uk reports:

The country's premier says he will approve capital punishment if parliament votes for it, following last month's attempted coup.

Speaking to supporters at a rally, he said: "My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey."

President Erdogan vowed to "destroy terrorists" threatening to harm the country, saying: "They will all be cleansed out like a cancer cell. We will find them and punish them."
The death penalty was legal until 2004 in Turkey. However, in practice it had not been enacted since 1984.