At the time of the coup in July 2016, approximately 290 people died. The conspiracy raided the president’s parliament and palace.
The Turechchini Prosecutor’s Office on Friday released a warrant of 63 existing military personnel on suspicion of relations with an organization that Ankara accused of organizing attempts at a coup d’etat in 2016. AP reported on Friday, May 23.
According to the Istanbul prosecutor’s office, among the suspects – four colonels, as well as army representatives, fleet, air forces and gendarmerie. As a result of morning attacks across the country, 56 people were detained.
According to the investigation, all of them were associated with the forbidden formation, which the authorities called the “terrorist organization of Fethullah” (FETO). The head of this structure, preacher Fethullah Gulen, died in October last year in the United States, where he has been living in exile since 1999.
At the time of the coup in July 2016, approximately 290 people died. The conspiracy raided the president’s parliament and palace.
After a unsuccessful coup in Turkey, mass purges in the army, police, ships and state institutions began. Thousands of people were arrested, and the schools, the media and businesses related to Gulen were closed.
The prosecutor’s office notes that the suspects have been discovered by telephoneracks, adding that the fet still brings “greatest threats to the constitutional system and the state safety.” According to the agency, since 2016, more than 25 thousand military suspects have been detained.
Fethullah Gulen, the former Imam, who for a long time has an influential network of supporters, who previously contributed to Erdogan’s climb to power. However, their union collapsed after investigations into the corruption and closure of Gulenovsky educational institutions. Gulen denied his participation in an attempt by a coup. For part of it, Türkiye did not successfully request its extradition from the United States.
On the night of July 16, 2016 in Turkey, an attempt of a coup d’etat, organized by the military part that opposed the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The conspiracy took a number of strategic objects in Ankara and Istanbul, but the coup was restrained for hours. About 290 people were killed, more than 2 thousand were injured. Turkish authorities have accused the Islamic preacher’s revolution Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States. Since then, large purges in the army, police, ships and other state structures have continued the country.
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