Turkish government issued detention warrants for 73 people, including military officers soldiers on their active duties, on Tuesday across the country as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
According to a statement by the Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office, 40 people are accused of leaking police recruitment exam questions in 2011 to the officers who have alleged links to the Gülen movement. So far, 27 people have been detained in Ankara-based operations in 21 provinces across Turkey.
Separately, a Kayseri prosecutor issued detention warrants for 33 people, including 27 active serving military officers, who were allegedly found to have been in touch with some alleged members of the movement by payphone. These were reportedly sought by police in the Kayseri-based operation across 9 provinces across the country.
Also on Tuesday, border guards arrested five people who were trying to illegally cross to Greece from the northwestern province of Edirne in order to escape the persecution of Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement.
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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