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Over 35,000 Suspects Arrested in Turkey Coup Probe: Minister

  • October, 23, 2016 - 16:51
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Over 35,000 Suspects Arrested in Turkey Coup Probe: Minister

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey has arrested more than 35,000 people over alleged links to the group run by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for the failed July coup, Turkish Justice Minister said on Sunday.

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Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the suspects had been placed under arrest since the attempted putsch that fell apart within hours.

Another 3,907 suspects were still being sought while nearly 26,000 people had been released into "judicial control", he said, according to AFP.

Some 82,000 individuals had been investigated in total since the coup bid, he told the audience Saturday at a ruling Justice and Development Party conference in Afyonkarahisar, western Turkey.

Tens of thousands of people have been suspended, sacked or detained in the military, judiciary, police, education sector and media in connection with the July 15 attempted putsch blamed on Gulen and his Hizmet (Service) movement.

The unprecedented purge has come under heavy criticism from Turkey's Western allies, including the European Union. Brussels has urged Ankara to act within the rule of law, which Turkey insists it is.

Ankara accuses Gulen of masterminding the coup, during which a rogue military faction tried to oust Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Gulen -- who has lived in self-imposed exile since 1999 in Pennsylvania -- strongly denies the charges.

 
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