According a front man for the Istanbul police on Monday, 62 of the suspects had been nabbed
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
in a counter-terrorism operation centered in Istanbul but spread over 20 other provinces in the Anatolian country.
He further said that further operations to locate the remaining 44 suspects were ongoing, adding that they were "marriage officials" for supporters of the US-based opposition holy man 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..., who Ankara says was behind the botched mid-July 2016 putsch.
Gulen has since strongly rejected any involvement in the coup attempt against
... 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...
, however, Ankara labeled his transnational religious and social movement, Gulen Hareketi, as a terror organization, the so-called FETO. The
The police front man further said that the suspects had allegedly helped set up arranged marriages for some of Gulen’s followers.