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The Grand Turk
Turkey seeks nearly 150 arrests over Gulen ties: Report
2019-01-05
More of Turkey’s most qualified in their fields taken off the market and locked up, their possessions to be taxed at 100% to feed the Erdogan state.
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish police on Friday launched nationwide raids to detain nearly 150 people, including military personnel, suspected of ties to the group blamed for the 2016 attempted coup, local media reported.

Prosecutors in Istanbul, Konya and Ankara issued arrest warrants for 137 people as part of different investigations into followers of US-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...
, state news agency Anadolu and NTV broadcaster reported.

The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
has claimed that Gulen ordered the coup attempt against 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 -- a charge he vehemently denies.

The raids were spread across more than 30 provinces including Ankara where the public prosecutor issued detention warrants for 35 non-commissioned officers in the navy including 10 still in active duty.

Tens of thousands of people have been locked away
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
over alleged links to Gulen since 2016 while over 100,000 have been sacked or suspended from the public sector.

Although Ankara has been criticised by human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
defenders and its Western allies over the scale of the crackdown, the nationwide raids have continued in recent weeks.

Ottoman Turkish officials stress that the operations are necessary to remove the "virus" caused by the Gulen movement's infiltration of key Ottoman Turkish institutions.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  the Islamic "Venezuala-zation" of Turkey.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2019-01-05 12:22  

#1  They will never run out of arrest possibilities in Turkey.

People who don't take the left in America seriously, take note...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-01-05 06:37  

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