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The Grand Turk
Turkey Detains 85 Military Personnel over Gulen Ties
2018-09-22
[AnNahar] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday detained 85 military personnel in countrywide raids over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 failed coup, state media reported.

Prosecutors in Ankara issued arrest warrants for 110 active duty personnel in the air force, state-run news agency
...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
Anadolu said, as part of a probe into followers of US-based Moslem holy man 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...
Police launched operations in 16 provinces including Ankara while those detained in other cities would be taken to the Ottoman Turkish capital.

Five of those sought by police were pilots while three were colonels, the agency added.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
claims Gulen 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...
on July 15, 2016 but he strongly denies the charges.

Over 77,000 people including military personnel, teachers and judges have been tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
over suspected links to Gulen under the two-year state of emergency imposed five days after the coup bid. The government ended the emergency this July.

Western allies have expressed concern over the scale of the crackdown which saw over 140,000 people suspended or sacked from the public sector.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  The remainder will be incompetent, but politically loyal
Posted by: Frank G   2018-09-22 06:34  

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