Ankara-Sana
The Turkish regime authorities arrested 12 people today in Ankara under the pretext of their association with the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom Erdogan's authorities accuse of being behind the coup attempt in the country that took place in 2016.
The Anatolia News Agency, a spokesman for the Turkish regime, quoted a security source as saying, “These arrests were made on the orders of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Ankara and on charges of using the encrypted smartphone messaging application of the Fethullah Gülen group.”
Since the coup attempt more than four years ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's regime has waged a severe crackdown to target its opponents and opponents, as tens of thousands of people were arrested and dismissed in various civil, military and judicial institutions in the country.