More than 240 people were killed and 2,000 injured in violence surrounding the July 15 coup attempt.
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Among them are Zaman Newspaper, Samanyolu News Channel and Cihan News Agency, which have previously been accused of supporting the movement of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric and businessman blamed by the Turkish government for the failed coup bid on July 15. Gulen, who denies the charge, has built up an extensive network of supporters, schools, charities and businesses in Turkey over decades.
Earlier on Wednesday, Turkish authorities ordered that 47 journalists from a formerly oppositional newspaper be detained.
On Monday, media reported that arrest warrants had been issued for 42 other journalists, including well-known commentator and former parliamentarian Nazli Ilicak.
In another crackdown, police and prosecutors searched the Istanbul-based naval academy, an official said.
“It has been expressed that Fethullah Gulen was at the center of the coup attempt”.
He urged the government to make a distinction between those who are guilty and those who are innocent in the deadly failed coup.
Kilicdaroglu cautioned that authorities should act within the law and pursue only those linked to the coup plot.
He said he had issued a denunciation of the coup attempt that was similar to statements issued by Turkey’s opposition parties, but “Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, immediately accused me of orchestrating the putsch”.
“Those who are innocent should not be thrown into the fire with those who are guilty”, said Kilicdaroglu, the former head of Turkey’s social security service.
Around a third of Turkey’s roughly 360 serving generals have been detained since the abortive coup, more than 100 of them already charged pending trial.
Turkey wants the United States to extradite the cleric, but Washington has said it will do so only if there is clear evidence of wrongdoing. Dvorkovich said that Turkey is Russia’s strategic ally and they are willing to bring relations to a level even better than that enjoyed before the crisis.
“Turkey’s president is blackmailing the United States by threatening to curb his country’s support for the global coalition against the Islamic State”.
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According to Yeni Safak, Campbell “also managed more than $2 billion in transactions via UBA Bank in Nigeria by using Central Intelligence Agency links to distribute among the pro-coup military personnel in Turkey”.
