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Turkey orders detention of 380 businessmen in Gulen investigation
[Ynet] Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 380 businessmen accused of providing financial support to the network of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... , who is accused of orchestrating July's failed coup, media reports said on Thursday. State-run Anadolu news agency said prosecutors had also issued demands for searches of the suspects' homes and offices. Gulen denies accusations of involvement in the attempted putsch, in which more than 240 people were killed. Turkey's Dogan Holding says two detained in police raids in Gulen-linked probe [AlAhram] Turkish police detained the chief legal advisor and a former chief executive of Dogan Holding on Thursday, the conglomerate said, as part of a probe into followers of a U.S.-based holy man blamed for a failed July coup. Dogan - which has interests in media, finance, energy and tourism and owns newspaper Hurriyet and broadcaster CNN Turk - said the raids were only on the personal offices and homes of the two individuals and that its operations were unaffected. Last month another Dogan Holding executive, Barbaros Muratoglu, was remanded in jug on an accusation of "aiding a terror group" as part of an investigation into the exiled Moslem holy man Fethullah Gulen ... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world... and his followers. Ankara refers to the group as the "Gulenist Terror Organisation". In its statement to the Istanbul stock exchange, Dogan said Thursday's detentions were part of the same investigation. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-06 |
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