A police operation targeting faith based Gülen-movement members held in İzmir province on Sunday morning, 72 people were detained, according to T24 news website.
Turkish intelligence (MİT) officers, alongside terror police raided 118 houses in part of an investigation on people who are allegedly helping to the people who are in jail over their alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement. Prosecutor accused them of paying rents of families and supporting them morally.
In late April, detention warrants were issued for 48 teachers, who were former staff members of closed down by state of emergency decree following a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. According to Turkish Interior Ministry’s announcements, in first four months of the year, 10,472 people have been detained due to alleged links to the Gülen movement.
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-police-raid-118-houses-detains-72-people-over-alleged-links-to-gulen-movement/
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