The Turkish government has detained 967 people across Turkey over the past week (May 7-May 14) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, according to a written statement released by the Interior Ministry on Monday.
Police detained a total of 10,472 people over alleged links to the movement in the first four months of 2018.
Meanwhile, a total of 46 people were detained by police in 15 provinces on Monday across Turkey over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The detentions came after the Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Ankara issued warrants for 86 people, including for 25 on duty colonels and 47 dismissed colonels of the Turkish Land Forces Command.
Another detention warrants were issued for 14 people including two suspended teachers, and 12 students and alumni of the Abant İzzet Baysal University on Monday in the Black Sea province of Bolu over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Bolu issued the warrants after these people were accused of using 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 using ByLock since the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016.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.
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