The closures left some 200,000 students in academic limbo, wondering if they could continue their studies and anxious about the black mark of a Gulen school on their college record.
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The United States should “not harbor a terrorist” like USA -based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Euphrates Shield operation initially targeted IS militias, but most of the focus since has been on checking the advance of USA -backed Syrian Kurdish fighters.
“We just want to see Turkish soldiers with us [against the terrorist groups]”, the commander told Anadolu Agency.
On Syria: “Assad can not be part of any transitional period. the world should find a solution that does not involve Assad”.
During the five years of full-scale civil war in Syrian, another regional terrorist group, the PYD and its armed YPG, backed by Washington, which portray them as the sole effective faction combating DAESH, aimed to gain control of a wide stretch of territory in the north of Syria, an area called Rojavain in Kurdish.
The arrests came a day after Istanbul police detained some 40 foreign nationals suspected of links to IS in simultaneous raids in the city’s Fatih neighborhood.
Gulen has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999.
UNITED NATIONS Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on world leaders at the United Nations to take measures against a US -based cleric’s “terrorist network” that he said threatened their security.
Turkish authorities have sacked or suspended some 100,000 members of the military and civil service, including teachers, prosecutors and police officers for suspected links to US -based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the plot. Turkey says that Gulen’s followers infiltrated the civil service, courts and military with the intent of toppling the government, a charge the cleric denies.
“If the U.S.is our strategic ally and our North Atlantic Treaty Organisation partner. then they should not let a terrorist like Gulen run his organization”, Erdogan said, in an interview on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
After the putsch, Turkey announced a three-month state of emergency, during which it has started a heavy-handed crackdown, especially in the country’s mainly Kurdish southeastern regions.
“The state of emergency should be used to bring the country back to normal”, Kilicdaroglu said.
“It can be extended for three months or one month or even more”.
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Authorities have cracked down on schools, media and businesses run by Gulen since the July coup.
