Turkish government detained dozens of people, including 27 police officers in first two days of May as part of its massive post coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
According to a report by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on Wednesday the Bursa Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 30 police officers who were dismissed or suspended by the government decrees under the state of emergency over their alleged links to the movement. Police detained 27 police officers including police chiefs in Bursa, Balıkesir, Kütahya, Eskişehir and Mersin provinces.
Also on Wednesday, the Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 10 people, including 9 former employees of Turkish Undersecretary of Treasury, over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. Police detained four of them in Ankara and İzmir provinces due to their alleged use of mobile phone messaging application ByLock.
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 supposedly using ByLock since a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Police detained 5 people in Antalya and Denizli provinces over their alleged links to the Gülen movement on Tuesday. One of them was reportedly released after some processes in police station. Also in Manisa province, 2 men and their wives were detained by police on Tuesday over the same accusation.
Meanwhile, the Tokat Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for 10 people in Ankara, İstanbul, Kayseri, Mardin, Kahramanmaraş, Samsun, Malatya, Kırıkkale and Çorum provinces including a military officer, 3 judges, 5 lawyers and a research assistant who were dismissed by government decrees under the state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Police also detained a lieutenant colonel in Eskişehir province over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on Tuesday. The detained lieutenant colonel was identified as Mustafa B.
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 also 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-27-police-officers-and-more-over-alleged-links-to-gulen-movement/
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