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| Turkey purge roundup: Friday August 5th | |
| 2016-08-05 | |
| Coup arrests push Turkish penal system to breaking point [Ynet] Even before last month's coup attempt, Turkey's penal system was overstretched, with crowded prisons and backlogged courts. Now, it is struggling to cope with an influx of thousands who have been detained in the aftermath of the attempted putsch. The government says the situation is under control, but pictures of some alleged coup plotters handcuffed, stripped to their underpants and detained in sweltering rooms have raised concern among rights groups. There are reports that some jails are so crowded that prisoners have to sleep in shifts. There are now so many alleged putschists that the government says it doesn't have a courthouse big enough to try them all and will need to build new ones. Some 3,000 prosecutors and judges are among those who have been detained, making it even more difficult to find members of the judiciary to handle trials. Turkey's Erdogan vows to cut off revenues of Gulen-linked businesses
Business was the arena in which the network of Fethullah Gulen was still the strongest, Erdogan said in a speech at the presidential palace broadcast live on television, vowing to show no mercy in a crackdown on the cleric's Turkey issues arrest warrant for US-based cleric [IsraelTimes] Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court has issued a formal warrant for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Anadolu Agency says the Istanbul-based court issued the warrant Thursday, accusing Gulen of “ordering the July 15 coup attempt.” | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Midnight Express showed how well they incarcerate |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-08-05 10:05 |
| #1 Erdy is certainly getting a lot of mileage out of his coup/purge. A suspicious person might be suspicious of the whole thing. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-08-05 01:18 |