Turkey orders arrest of 122 military personnel over suspected Gulen links (Update)
Turkey has ordered the arrest of 122 military personnel over suspected links to the network blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed military coup, prosecutors...
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More Gulen related arrests in Turkey, 70,000 already jailed
ISTANBUL, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Turkey ordered the arrest of 295 serving military personnel on Friday, the prosecutor’s office said, accusing them of links to...
Turkish authorities detain 60 over alleged Gulen links
Turkish authorities on Monday detained 51 soldiers and nine others over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric who Ankara says orchestrated the failed coup in...
Gulen linked arrests continue in Turkey
Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 70 serving army officers over alleged links to the U.S.-based preacher accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in 2016,...
EU does not view Gulen network as a terrorist group
The European Union does not share Turkey’s view that the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen is a terrorist organisation and would need to...
Turkey seeks arrest of 360 people in probe targeting Gulen network in army
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 360 people in an operation targeting supporters of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen within the army, state-run Anadolu news...
Turkey to detain 99 suspects in widening post-coup probe
Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 99 suspects including doctors and lawyers and have so far detained 78 of them, the state-run Anadolu agency said...
Yildirim says US visa move positive, calls for extradition of cleric
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Tuesday described the United States’ move to partially resume issuing visas in Turkey as a positive step, but said...
U.S., Turkey mutually suspend visa services for security reasons (Updated)
The U.S. mission in Turkey and subsequently the Turkish mission in Washington mutually scaled back visa services after a U.S. consulate employee was arrested in...
Turkey to detain 254 municipal, ministry staff over Gulen links
Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 254 Istanbul municipality and ministry staff over alleged links to the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating last year’s attempted...
Turkey says detains 1,000 “secret imams” in police purge
Turkish authorities said they had arrested more than a thousand “secret Imams” who had infiltrated police forces on behalf of a U.S.-based cleric accused by...
Turkey issues 3,224 warrants over suspected links to coup
Turkey has issued detention warrants for 3,224 people over suspected links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, news channels NTV and CNN Turk reported on Wednesday,...
Turkish police detain dozens of academics in Gulen-related probe – media (Update)
Police detained more than 50 academics linked to Turkey‘s prestigious Istanbul University on Friday in an investigation targeting followers of the US-based cleric blamed for...
Turkish police detain 73 academics in Gulen-related probe – state media
Turkish police detained 73 academics in dawn raids on Friday targeting followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of orchestrating an attempted coup...
Turkey detains editor, top staff at opposition newspaper
Turkish police detained the editor and a dozen senior staff from the main secularist opposition newspaper on Monday, a day after 10,000 more civil servants...
Turkey suspends thousands of police, shuts down TV station as crackdown widens
Turkish authorities suspended nearly 13,000 police officers, detained dozens of air force officers and shut down a TV station on Tuesday, widening a state-ordered clampdown...
Turkey detains brother of cleric Gulen, issues arrest warrants for 115
Turkish authorities have detained a brother of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric they accuse of orchestrating a coup attempt in July, and issued arrest warrants...
Russia well and truly back on the world stage
By Farid Mirbagheri The Russian Federation is gradually but surely reclaiming some of its lost influence in the world particularly in west Asia and north...
Cleric Gulen says certain Erdogan behind failed Turkey coup
US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkish authorities accuse of orchestrating a failed coup in July, told a German newspaper that he was sure President...
US-based cleric urges Europe act to stop ‘catastrophe’ in Turkey
A US-based Turkish cleric accused by Tayyip Erdogan of treason said the president was using a failed coup to promote himself as a national hero...
