Those targeted in the operation, which was centred in Istanbul and spread across 37 other provinces, included retired, suspended and serving soldiers, Anadolu said, adding 22 of them were detained on Tuesday morning.
The suspects are believed to have contacted imams of the network via payphones and landlines, the news agency said. The arrests are part of
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
's far-reaching crackdown against the network of U.S.-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..., whom Ankara holds responsible for the failed putsch.
In the 19 months since the coup attempt - when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and warplanes to attack parliament, killing more than 240 people - Turkey has tossed in the calaboose
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more than 50,000 under a state of emergency. It has also sacked or suspended 150,000 people from their jobs in the military, public and private sectors.
The government dismisses rights groups' concerns about the crackdown, saying only such a purge could neutralise the threat represented by Gulen's network, which it says infiltrated institutions such as the judiciary, army and schools.