Turkish government on Saturday detained 12 people, including 10 military personnel, who are on their active duties, in a Kahramanmaraş-based investigation 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, police conducted simultaneous raids in 13 provinces across Turkey, including Kahramanmaraş, Ankara, Kayseri, Erzurum, Niğde, Şırnak, İzmir, Siirt, Edirne, Samsun, Batman, Elazığ, Hakkari and Bursa, as part of an investigation carried out by Kahramanmaraş Chief Prosecutor’s Office.
It was reported that the detainees include 9 non-commissioned officers and an expert sergeant from Land Forces, Air Forces and gendarmerie.
Meanwhile, a 73-year-old Turkish man, identified by his initials O.E.C., was taken to hospital as his health condition deteriorated after being detained. O.E.C. was reportedly detained as part of an investigation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement in Isparta province on Saturday.
The 73-year-old man was rounded up at his home in Isparta’s Uluborlu district and then taken to hospital as his health conditions got bad. Following the initial treatment the police taken him to Aydın, a western province 250 kilometers away from Isparta where the investigation was originated. However, his health problems got worsened on the way and he was returned to the hospital again.
According to reports in Turkish media, O.E.C. has several medical problems including diabetes, cardiac diseases, high blood pressure and that his family members seek trial without arrest for O.E.C.
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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