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2018-01-04 The Grand Turk

Turkey issues detention warrants for 68 Bank Asya shareholders in post-coup probe: Police

[AlAhram] ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 68 shareholders of Bank Asya in an operation targeting the network of the holy man accused for orchestrating last year's failed coup attempt, the police said on Wednesday.

The operation, centred in Istanbul and encompassing nine provinces, targeted "class A" shareholders who had voting rights to determine the bank's administrative board, police said.

The state-run Anadolu news agency said 49 of the suspects were tossed into the calaboose so far.

Bank Asya was founded by followers of the U.S.-based 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...
, and was seized by the state in 2015 along with other Gulen-linked companies in a government crackdown.

Since the abortive putsch, more than 50,000 people, including civil servants and security personnel, have been jugged
You have the right to remain silent...
pending trial and some 150,000 suspended or dismissed from their jobs.

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