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Turkey targets military over alleged Gulen links
[AlAhram] The Istanbul public prosecutor ordered arrest warrants for 219 soldiers on active duty including four colonels and five lieutenant colonels, state news agency Anadolu said. Istanbul police launched an operation to capture the suspects on Friday morning. They are believed to have ties to the group led by US-based Moslem 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..., a former ally turned foe of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First  ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...Ankara accuses Gulen of being behind the failed coup but he strongly denies any links. In Ankara, the capital's public prosecutor issued arrest warrants on Friday for 48 people, mainly working in the arms industry, also over alleged links to Gulen. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... refers to the group as the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" but followers insist they have peaceful goals of promoting Islam and secular education. Over 50,000 people have been jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... since the failed putsch in a purge lambasted by human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... activists and Ankara's Western allies. Nearly 130,000 public sector workers have been sacked. Last week, dozens of people including airforce personnel were detained for suspected links to coup-plotters in nationwide operations. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-15 |
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