A woman checks her cell phone as she passes outside Marmara University Theological School mosque in Istanbul, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016.
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Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 84 university academics and 29 banking regulators have been detained in the latest purge to rake Turkey since last month’s coup attempt.
The attacks come as Turkey is cracking down on suspected followers of a movement led by USA -based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the government accuses of orchestrating a failed military coup last month, during which at least 270 people were killed.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said this week that more than 40,000 state employees had been detained in the purge, with 20,335 remanded in custody.
“Our fight against terror will never cease”, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who subsequently barred news coverage of the attacks in Turkey.
In a series of tweets posted on his official account, Topbas said the judicial process would reveal whether his son-in-law was guilty. Gulen has denied those allegations and has condemned the coup attempt. “This man was the leader of the coup”. “Our request is clear: that he be temporarily detained and then returned”.
Five people, including four soldiers were injured during a bomb attack by the PKK terrorist organization in eastern Turkey’s Van province on Friday, a security source said.
Turkey believes the United States, our strategic partner and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ally, with whom we share democratic principles, will not support Gulen and his followers.
A bomb detonated near a police station in the city of Elazig on Thursday morning, hours after another auto bomb exploded near the borders with Iran.
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Citing classified documents, Spiegel said Turkey’s secret service had asked Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) for help in rounding up Gulen supporters in Germany.
