Ankara-Sana
Authorities in Turkey have arrested dozens of people and issued arrest warrants for others in connection with the July 2016 coup attempt.
"39 people were arrested in an operation by the security forces ... and charged with using Bayloc's encrypted messages," the Anatolia news agency quoted prosecutors in the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying. Arguing that this app is used by supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen.
In the central province of Konya, the prosecutor's office issued an arrest warrant for 53 soldiers serving on the pretext of being also associated with Gulen.
Turkish authorities have issued an order to extend the detention of 50 soldiers and three other people under the pretext of association with Gulen, also accused by the Erdogan regime of being behind the coup attempt in July 2016.
In the three years since the coup, authorities have imprisoned more than 77,000 people and made decisions to dismiss or suspend some 150,000 government, military, judiciary, education and other institutions.