... 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..., a government minister said on Thursday.
"Out of 287 court cases, 171 have been decided: 2,140 defendants have been given jail terms and 1,478 of them have been acquitted," Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul told state news agency Anadolu.
"I guess the remaining cases will be finalised by the end of 2018," he said.
The government accuses US-based Moslem 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...of orchestrating the failed putsch but Gulen vehemently denies the claims.
Thousands of people including soldiers, coppers and judges have been placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
since then in a crackdown on the Gulen movement which
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has dubbed the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" or FETO. The trials are taking place in several cities throughout Turkey.
Tens of thousands of people have been suspended or sacked from the public sector including teachers, coppers and judges under decrees imposed under the state of emergency declared after the failed coup in July two years ago.