The Turkish government detained at least 100 people, mostly military personnel, on Tuesday across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
Police detained 20 military officers in 23 provinces across Turkey following İstanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office issued detention warrants for a group of 34 military officers over their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The military personnel consists of 19 active-duty military personnel, 4 former military school students, and 11 dismissed soldiers. The 19 active-duty soldiers include 2 colonels, 3 majors, 5 lieutenants, 5 first lieutenants, and 4 sergeants.
Also on Tuesday, 30 Turkish Gendarmerie Forces personnel were detained by police on Tuesday after detention warrants issued by Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office for 50 gendarmerie personnel over their alleged links to the Gülen movement.
According to a prosecutor’s statement, the detention warrants came after one gendarmerie lieutenant and 49 first lieutenants’ over their links to the Gülen movement based on their telephone conversations with the alleged members of the movement. It was reported that 35 of them are active gendarmerie forces personnel.
Police also detained 7 military personnel on Tuesday during the raids in 12 provinces across Turkey in a Tokat-based investigation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The detentions came following the detention warrants issued by Tokat Chief Prosecutor’s Office for 16 military personnel including 7 active-duty non-commissioned officers, 3 gendarmerie sergeants, and 6 dismissed military cadets.
Moreover, 17 active-duty military personnel were detained in 12 provinces across Turkey on Tuesday in a Şırnak-based investigation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement. The detentions came following the issuance of the detention warrants by Şırnak Chief Prosecutor’s Office for 21 active-duty military officers. The detainees include a lieutenant, 13 non-commissioned officers, 3 sergeants.
Meanwhile, it was reported on Tuesday that 25 out 37 people who have been sought over their alleged links to the Gülen movement were detained by police. İstanbul’s Anadolu Chief Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 37 people who used to work in the companies which were seized by the government over their alleged links to the 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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