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Turkish police move to arrest 333 soldiers over Gulen links

Istanbul - Muslimchronicle

Turkish police have launched raids in 49 cities to detain over 300 soldiers accused of links to the group blamed for last year’s attempted coup, state media reported Wednesday. The Istanbul public prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 360 people as part of a probe into followers of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in the Turkish armed forces, state-run news agencyRead more

Turkish police seek 70 military officers over Gulen links

Turkey - Muslimchronicle

Turkish police launched an operation on Tuesday to arrest 70 soldiers accused of links to the US-based Islamic preacher alleged to have orchestrated last year’s attempted coup, the private Dogan news agency reported. Operations targeting supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen are continuing on a daily basis some 15 months after the failed putsch. Gulen has denied involvement. In the lastRead more

Turkey issues detention warrants in Prime Ministry, banks in coup-related probe

Ankara - Muslimchronicle

Turkey issued detention warrants on Monday for 43 people in the Prime Ministry and several banks over allegedly using the ByLock mobile phone application. The ByLock is the encrypted messaging application almost exclusively used by followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016. Six ofRead more

113,000 arrested in anti-Gulen crackdown in Turkey

Ankara - Arab Today

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Sunday that 113,260 have been arrested and 47,155 remanded over suspected links to the Gulen movement since the July 2016 coup attempt. Among the remanded are 10,732 police officers, 7,643 soldiers, 168 generals, 2,575 judges and prosecutors, 26,177 civilians and 208 local administrators, Soylu said in an interview with a local television channel.Read more

Erdogan foe Gulen urges US to reject extradition bid

Washington - Arab Today

US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen urged Washington to reject Turkey's efforts to extradite him and rejected as "ridiculous" the claim he was behind the past week's coup attempt. "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today once again demonstrated he will go to any length necessary to solidify his power and persecute his critics," Gulen said in a statement. "I urge the USRead more

Turkish police detains 100 members of Gulen's Movement

Istanbul - Arab Today

Turkish police on Monday detained 100 members of a movement led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in an operation launched in nine provinces, the Istanbul prosecutor office said. The detainees will be charged of "being a member and financing Fethullah Gulen Terror Organization/Parallel State Structure," read a statement posted on the website of the Istanbul Anadolu chief public prosecutorRead more