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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey detains 1,000 in new anti-Gulen crackdown |
| 2017-04-27 |
| [AlAhram] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Wednesday detained more than 1,000 people in a huge new crackdown against alleged supporters of a holy man accused of orchestrating the coup bid against President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... The dawn raids across the country -- seeking more than 3,000 suspects -- come just over a week after Erdogan narrowly won a controversial referendum on ramping up his powers. They are the latest indication Turkey intends no let-up in the fight against its perceived enemies after the vote, with fighter jets Tuesday pounding Kurdish turban targets in Iraq and northern Syria. A total of 1,120 suspects have so far been detained, the official Anadolu news agency said. Anadolu said 4,672 suspects were sought -- of whom 1,448 are already in jail -- meaning that a total of 3,224 arrest warrants were issued. About 8,500 coppers were involved in the nationwide operation, Anadolu reported, adding that arrest warrants had been issued for 390 suspects in Istanbul alone. After the latest sweep, German foreign ministry front man Sebastian Fischer said Berlin "has taken note of the mass detentions with concern", urging respect for rule of law. The Hurriyet newspaper reported that arrest warrants had been issued against a total of 7,000 suspects across Turkey, citing unidentified sources. The suspects are so-called "secret imams" of Gulen suspected of infiltrating themselves into the police or other state institutions, it reported. |
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