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The Grand Turk
Turkey jails 32,000 in coup probe as mass trials loom
2016-09-29
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
said Wednesday that courts have placed 32,000 suspects under arrest on charges of links to a group run by the US-based preacher blamed for July's failed coup, as the country braces for the most extensive trials in its history.

Turkish media reports say the authorities plan to build 174 new prisons over the next five years, which would increase the country's current prison capacity of less than 200,000 by another 100,000.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag told NTV television that 70,000 people had been investigated after the attempted putsch on July 15, 32,000 of them remanded in jug.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  A lot of turks are still buying Erdogon's conspiracy nonsense.
Posted by: lord garth   2016-09-29 05:40  

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