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| Turkish columnist arrested for 'being a member of an armed terror group' |
| 2015-09-22 |
[Hurriyet Daily News] Four suspects, including a columnist for daily Bugun, have been tossed in the clinkKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! as part of an investigation into an alleged terrorist organization. The 2nd Criminal Magistrate of Peace in Istanbul arrested columnist Gultekin Avci and three coppers for "being a member of an armed terror group" on Sept. 20. Three other coppers, who were detained with Avci on Sept. 18 in the western province of Izmir, were released by the judge. Avci, a former prosecutor and also the lawyer of Samanyolu Medya Group chairman Hidayet Karaca, was detained as a part of an investigation into what state-run Anadolu Agency described as the "Pro-Fethullah Terror Organization/Parallel State Structure," referring to the followers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, the government's ally-turned-nemesis whose followers are believed to wield influence in the judiciary and the police. In the summer of 2014, dozens of Turkish coppers, including high-ranking officers, were detained and accused of spying and illegally wire-tapping then-prime minister President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... and his inner circle, in what the chief prosecutor said was a concocted probe of an alleged terrorist group named Selam Tevhid in a pretense to tap the phones of Erdogan, a minister and the undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Hakan Fidan. |
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