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| Arrest warrant in absentia, red notice issued for Gülen |
| 2015-10-20 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] An arrest warrant in absentia and a red notice has been issued in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... for the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen, while a local court has accepted an indictment against 69 suspects, including Gulen, for links to the alleged "Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ)/Parallel State Structure (PDY)." Istanbul's 13th Court of Serious Crimes accepted the 1,453-page indictment into suspected allies of Gulen, a former friend turned bitter foe of the Turkish government. It also issued an arrest warrant for the Pennsylvania-based Gulen and Sinan Dursun, who is reported to be Gulen's assistant, in absentia. Both suspects will be searched for with a red notice, the court ordered. Gulen is charged with "attempting to topple the government of the Turkish Republic or preventing it from fully or partially conducting its duties," "forming or managing the FETÖ/PDY, an armed organization," and "obtaining confidential data that need to be confidential for political spying purposes." Punishments for the charges range from 37 years in jail to an aggravated life sentence. |
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