The operation, which began on Tuesday, targeted 124 people accused of being followers of U.S.-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..., CNN Turk said.
Ankara accuses Gulen of being behind the abortive putsch on July 15, 2016, a charge he denies.
The suspects were said to have operated as religious guides for high-ranking military personnel, it said. The operation, which focused on the central
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
Turkey has detained 160,000 people and dismissed nearly the same number of state employees since the coup attempt, the U.N. human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
office said in March. Of that number, more than 50,000 have been formally charged and kept in jail during trial.
Critics of President Tayyip Erdogan say he has used the failed putsch as a pretext to quash dissent. Turkey says the measures are necessary to combat threats to national security.
Erdogan, who has dominated