Ankara-Sana
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime has issued arrest warrants for 85 people, including military personnel, for alleged links to Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom the regime accuses of being behind the July 2016 coup attempt.
The Anatolia news agency quoted security sources as saying that "the public prosecutor in Ankara issued arrest warrants for 20 people, including nine army officers on charges of communicating with elements of the Gulen organization," adding that "arrest warrants have also been issued against 50 people in the armed forces Turkish in 18 provinces. ”
In separate operations, four people were arrested in Eskisehir province for links to Gulen and 11 former Turkish Army doctors were arrested in Istanbul.
In the years following the coup, authorities arrested more than 77,000 people and made decisions to dismiss or suspend 150,000 government, military, judiciary, education and other institutions, and imposed a state of emergency and restrictions on the media and journalists.
