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Turkish Police Raid 44 Firms in Coup Probe, to Detain Executives

Police teams on Monday apprehended 136 personnel in operations conducted at.

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It said the companies were accused of giving financial support to the movement of US -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the July 15 putsch.

Yildirim said, “Death penalty is immediate death, however, there are greater deaths for them, which is objective and fair judgment”. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Gulen of o.

Yildirim said that any of Syria’s sectarian, ethnic or regional formations should have no supremacy over the others, and that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will have no place in the long run.

The Turkish PM said once more that the terror attacks, including the deadly July 15 coup attempt, did not hit Turkey’s economy, adding that both the banking and finance sectors have been operating well.

Gulen, a former Erdogan ally who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, is already on trial in absentia in Turkish courts, facing life terms over accusations of plotting to overthrow the government and leading an armed group.

“Those responsible for the blood of our martyrs will be brought to account”.

Turkish police raided offices at three Istanbul courthouses after detention warrants were issued for 173 judicial personnel as part of an investigation into last month’s coup attempt, Dogan news agency reported.

Tens of thousands of staff within the military, judiciary, civil service and education have been dismissed or detained since a rogue faction within the military tried to oust Erdogan from power.

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Relations between Brussels and Ankara have already been strained since Turkey responded to the coup by launching a relentless crackdown against alleged plotters in state institutions, amid calls from the European Union to act within the rule of law.

A Kurdish People's Protection Unit fighter stands near a wall which activists say was put up by Turkish authorities on the Syria Turkey border in the western Syrian countryside of Ras al Ain