Turkish government issued detention warrants for 18 public servants, who used to work for two ministries, on Wednesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 10 personnels of the Ministry of Custom and Trade and 8 personnel of the Ministry of Youth and Sport on Wednesday over their alleged links to the movement. It was reported that all of these public servants were previously dismissed from their duties by government decrees under the state of emergency and all of them were alleged user of ByLock mobile phone messaging application.
Turkish authorities believe ByLock is a communication tool among alleged followers of the Gülen movement. Tens of thousands of people, including civil servants, police officers, soldiers, businessmen and even housewives, have either been dismissed or arrested for using ByLock since a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Following the issuance of warrants police launched operations in 10 provinces across Turkey and detained 7 people on Wednesday.
Turkey survived a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people. Immediately after the putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement.
Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody.
Turkey has suspended or dismissed more than 150,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants since July 15. On December 13, 2017 the Justice Ministry announced that 169,013 people have been the subject of legal proceedings on coup charges since the failed coup.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on April 18, 2018 that the Turkish government had jailed 77,081 people between July 15, 2016 and April 11, 2018 over alleged links to the Gülen movement.
from Stockholm Center for Freedom https://stockholmcf.org/turkish-govt-detains-18-people-former-personnels-of-ministries-over-alleged-gulen-links/
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