The Istanbul prosecutor had issued arrest warrants for 300 soldiers, including 211 on active duty, state news agency Anadolu said.
Since the July 2016 attempted putsch more than 50,000 people have been placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
and 140,000 public workers, including military personnel, have been sacked or suspended over alleged links to the US-based preacher 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...or Kurdish krazed killers.
Istanbul police took 150 soldiers into custody during the latest operation, Anadolu reported said, as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement inside the armed forces.
Some 8,500
| More than half? That seems unwise. |
Five days after the coup bid,
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
introduced a state of emergency which was renewed for a seventh time last month despite Ankara's Western allies calling for it to end.