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Turkey Targets Ex-Airforce Staff over Alleged Coup Links
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
 dozens of military personnel in another round of nationwide raids against people with alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.

Forty-one suspects were tossed into the calaboose by late Friday morning, according to state news agency Anadolu, after the Ankara public prosecutor ordered arrest warrants for 87 former non-commissioned officers in the Ottoman Turkish airforce.

The police operations were launched in 16 provinces across the country including Ankara, Istanbul and the Aegean city of Izmir.

Ottoman Turkish authorities have detained more than 50,000 people over the last two years as part of an investigation into followers of US-based preacher 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...
, while nearly 130,000 public sector workers have been dismissed from their jobs.

In a separate series of raids, 40 police in Istanbul were detained after the public prosecutor issued 41 arrest warrants over alleged links to Gulen.

The latest detentions come after Ottoman Turkish police detained nearly 140 people across the country on Tuesday over suspected links to Gulen after nearly 300 arrest warrants had been issued by different prosecutors.

But Ottoman Turkish officials stress the operations are needed to remove the "virus" that is the Gulen movement's infiltration of key Ottoman Turkish institutions.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-08
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