05 June 2018•Update: 05 June 2018
ANKARA/MUGLA/SIVAS, Turkey
At least 16 people were arrested over their alleged links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup attempt, according to a judicial source on Tuesday.
In an Ankara-based operation, four suspects were arrested after the provincial public prosecutor’s office issued arrest warrants for seven individuals.
The suspects were arrested in the capital Ankara, Istanbul, Balikesir, and Gaziantep provinces.
In another operation, ten suspects were rounded up in southwestern Mugla province.
Separately, security forces arrested a man and his wife in Istanbul after their arrest warrants were issued by the Sivas’s Public prosecutor’s office for their alleged links to FETO.
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.
Reporting by By Durmus Genc, Serhat Zafer and Halife Yalcinkaya:Writing by Sadık Kedir Abdu
