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Turkey orders detention of 140 people over Gulen links
[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 140 people, including serving army officers, over alleged links to the US-based religious leader Fethullah Gülen
... 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...
, according to an Anadolu news agency report.

Police launched simultaneous operations in 34 provinces across the country for 70 serving army members in a probe led by state prosecutors in the central province of Konya, Anadolu said.

It said the suspects were targeted based on statements by soldiers previously detained over ties to Gulen.

The Ottoman Turkish government says Gulen orchestrated the failed coup on July 15, 2016, in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 which killed 250 people - mostly civilians - and left nearly 2,200 injured.

Gulen has rejected the accusations.

Turkey also accuses Gulen's group of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Ottoman Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.


Posted by: Fred 2018-04-14
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