Tens of thousands of people have been held over alleged ties to 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...since the failed coup while over 140,000 public sector employees have been sacked or suspended.
Although Ankara has come under heavy criticism from its Western allies and human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
defenders over the scale of the crackdown,
The prosecutor's office said Monday that among the latest suspects sought were 43 lieutenants and 50 sergeants from the
The prosecutor's office said 67 of the suspects were active duty soldiers.
The prosecutor also issued warrants for nine civilians -- of whom it said eight had already been taken into custody on Monday -- who had worked or were working in the health ministry or hospitals.
The suspects are accused of having links to Gulen who Ankara says ordered the attempted overthrow of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... 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...in July 2016. Gulen strongly denies
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
's claims.
The arrests of alleged Gulen supporters show no sign of slowing down, coming after several nationwide police raids in recent months to detain thousands of people including military personnel.
Last week, prosecutors in Istanbul, Ankara and the Aegean province of Izmir issued arrest warrants for over 600 people as part of multiple probes into the Gulen movement.