A Turkish pilot, Yunus Poyraz (29) who escorted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s plane with an F-16 fighter jet in wake of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, was arrested by a Turkish court as part of Turkish government’s massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
According to a report by pro-government Sabah daily on Thursday, the twin pilot brothers Yunus Poyraz and Emre Poyraz, who served in the 192 Tiger filo under NATO command, were arrested as part of investigations in İzmir and Konya provinces. It was reported that Yunus Poyraz was assigned to escort Erdoğan’s plane following the coup bid on July 15, 2016.
The report claimed that Captain İbrahim Poyraz, the elder brother of the twin brothers and also a jet fighter pilot, was arrested with the charge of alleged involvemenet into the coup attempt. Due to accusations for Captain Poyraz over his alleged participation in the coup meeting at Air War Academy and his alleged role during the imprisonment of tho military officers on July 15, the twin jets fighter pilots were also arrested.
Since ByLock mobile phone messaging application could not be found on the mobile phones of the twin brothers, they have been accused of being crypto members of the Gülen movement in the Turkish military.
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 controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Turkey have been the subject of legal proceedings in the last two years on charges of membership in the Gülen movement since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, a Turkish Justice Ministry official told a symposium on July 19, 2018.
“Legal proceedings have been carried out against 445,000 members of this organization,” Turkey’s pro-government Islamist news agency İLKHA quoted Turkish Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Ömer Faruk Aydıner as saying.
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 about 170,000 judges, teachers, police and civil servants since July 15, 2016. 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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