ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 103 soldiers with suspected links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup in mid-2016, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Friday. Police have carried out regular sweeps against alleged supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gulen since the coup
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Turkey orders 61 soldiers detained for suspected Gulen links – media
ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities ordered the arrest of 61 soldiers from the navy and land forces, including senior officers, for suspected links to a U.S.-based cleric who Ankara says orchestrated a 2016 failed coup, state media said on Monday. Eighteen of those ordered detained were on active duty, Anadolu news agency
PKK fights back against Turkish insurgency
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants launched a rocket attack on military vehicles on Wednesday, killing two soldiers and wounding another, the local governor's office said, the latest in a series of attacks in southeast Turkey this week. The attacks come ahead of nationwide elections on Sunday and
Israel tries to ban rights groups from filming Israeli soldiers
(Reuters) JERUSALEM: Israel moved on Sunday to snap the lens shut on rights groups that film its troops’ interactions with Palestinians by introducing a bill that would make it a criminal offense. Rights groups frequently film Israeli soldiers on duty in the occupied West Bank, documentation the organizations say is necessary
22 anti-war Turkish students on trial, face 5 yrs in prison
By Middle East Affairs Twenty-two students from the most renowned university in Turkey went on trial on Wednesday on charges of " terror propaganda", their "crime" was organizing a demonstration on their campus to oppose President Erdogan's military involvement in Syria. Police stormed the Bogazici University dorm room in March, and have kept