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At least 12 soldiers, including 11 on duty, were arrested on Thursday across Turkey over their alleged links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), according to police sources.
In the Samsun-based operation, the counter-terrorism police conducted raids in capital Ankara, Samsun, Istanbul, Van, Izmir, Bitlis, Erzurum, Kayseri, Diyarbakır, Hakkari, Bursa, Adıyaman and Tunceli provinces, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.
At least 12 soldiers, including 11 on duty, were arrested on Thursday across Turkey over their alleged links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), according to police sources.
FETÖ-linked 12 suspects arrested across Turkey
The operation continued to nab one more suspect, they added.
FETÖ and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETÖ of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
Surveillance cameras at the entrance of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) leader Fetullah Gulen’s gated compound in Pennsylvania were out of service during an "armed incident" Wednesday, said a security guard, casting doubt over its validity.Earlier in the day, police investigated an incident involving an "armed man" outside the compound, which is located in Saylorsburg.After the reported incident, Anadolu Agency spoke to a guard, Austin Davos, who said he has been working at the compound for three years.Davos declined to comment on the suspect’s physical appearance but said two cameras monitoring the suspect’s alleged location were not working when an Anadolu Agency correspondent pointed out that the cameras must have filmed him.Davos said one camera has been out of service for a long time and the other broke down on Tuesday.Other guards at the compound referred the correspondent to the police when they were also asked to describe the suspect’s appearance.The failure of the cameras at the compound, which is under maximum security, cast doubt over how the "armed incident" took place.Although the security guards claimed the suspect was armed, a police public information release report did not include any statement that the suspect had a gun.It said an "unknown Caucasian wearing all dark clothing" was involved in the incident.The police responded to a report of a weapon being discharged at the compound, the release said, adding: "The security personnel discharged a weapon near the location of an unwanted person outside the security gate. The unidentified person fled the scene."Following the incident, a FETÖ-linked NGO called Alliance for Shared Values claimed the suspect "attempted to enter" the compound, whereas the security guards said the suspect was standing outside the security gate, according to the police release.In addition, Emrullah Polat, a senior FETÖ member at the compound, was filmed while hastily leaving the premises.FETÖ and its U.S.-based leader, Fetullah Gulen, allegedly orchestrated a defeated coup which martyred 251 people and injured nearly 2,200 others in July 2016.Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.Turkish court upholds life terms of six FETÖ suspectsTurkey repeats FETÖ extradition request to CambodiaFETÖ pretends to collect aid money in EthiopiaTurkey arrests three of 37 FETÖ-linked suspectsMHP head urges Germany to see FETÖ as terrorist
Broken cameras cast doubt over incident at FETÖ mansion
An Istanbul court of appeal on Tuesday upheld aggravated life sentences of six suspects over links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey, a judicial source said. Nazli Ilicak, Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Fevzi Yazici, Yakup Simsek and Sukru Tugrul Ozsengul were convicted for attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on talking to the media.They had appealed to the high court for their release, but Istanbul’s 2nd Appeal Court upheld their sentence, the source added.In late June, columnist and academic Mehmet Altan was released under judicial control upon his appeal to the penal department of Istanbul’s regional court of justice.FETÖ and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 that martyred 250 people and injured nearly 2,200 others.Ankara accuses FETÖ of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.Turkey repeats FETÖ extradition request to Cambodia
Turkish court upholds life terms of six FETÖ suspects
Turkey on Tuesday repeated its extradition request for three Fetullah Terrorist Organisation (FETÖ) members from Cambodia.Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at a joint news conference with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, said: "We have repeated our extradition request to Cambodia on the issue of three high profile FETÖ members.""This terror group is a threat not only for Turkey, but every country it operates in."Turkey's top diplomat said FETÖ "infiltrates in state institutions by using charter schools as cover-up, then tries to control the politics in that country".Çavuşoğlu said he talked about the operations of FETÖ terror group with his Cambodian counterpart and said Turkey is ready to take over FETÖ-controlled schools with Turkey's Maarif Foundation.FETÖ and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.Ankara also accuses FETÖ of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.Çavuşoğlu also stressed on the need to strengthen bilateral relations between Turkey and Cambodia, saying that the third meeting of the Joint Economic Comission (JEC) will be held in the coming days.Sokhonn said his country is "in a close cooperation with Turkey" over FETÖ."As a friend of Turkey, Cambodia will continue to support Turkey in its operations against FETÖ," he said.Sokhonn added that Prime Minister Hun Sen will visit Turkey at the end of October.He said the opening of Turkey's embassy in Phnom Penh in 2013 "activated" the relations."Cambodia will also open an embassy in Ankara next year," he said.FETÖ pretends to collect aid money in EthiopiaTime to clear YPG terrorists from Syria's Manbij and leave city to civilians: FMTurkey arrests three of 37 FETÖ-linked suspectsMHP head urges Germany to see FETÖ as terrorist
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