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The Grand Turk
Turkey Places 9 More Journalists under Arrest ‘over Gulen Links’
2017-08-18
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] An Istanbul court has placed under arrest nine journalists on suspicion of links to the alleged criminal mastermind of the failed 2016 coup, the latest in a series of measures against Ottoman Turkish media workers that have alarmed the West.

Ottoman Turkish authorities had on August 10 issued arrest warrants for 35 media employees accused of using the Bylock messaging app allegedly used by US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... 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...
 to mobilize followers in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 and of belonging to a "terror" group.

Turkey orders 70 former ministry personnel detained

[Ynet] Ottoman Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 70 former finance ministry employees on Thursday over alleged links to last year's failed coup attempt, broadcaster CNN Turk said.The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
 accuses US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen
... 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...
, who has lived in the United States since 1999, of orchestrating the abortive putsch in July 2016. Gulen has denied involvement and condemned the coup attempt.

Since the coup attempt some 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from jobs in the public and private sectors and more than 50,000 have been detained for alleged links to it.
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