Turkish police have detained 54 staff from a university shut down after an attempted coup last year that was blamed on US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.
It said the police had arrest warrants for a total of 171 academics and staff from Istanbul’s former Fatih University, which was regarded as having close tiesRead more
Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim cleric and bitter foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dismissed as doomed to fail Ankara's bid to extradite him from the United States over a failed coup attempt.
Gulen, the spiritual leader of the Hizmet movement -- which promotes moderate Islam across dozens of countries and is dubbed a terrorist group by Erdogan -- firmlyRead more