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Woman dismissed from job because she had surgery at hospital targeted by gov’t
 
Workers who were fired from their jobs at İzmir’s Ege University lost their jobs because they had a baby or received medical treatment at the now-closed, Gülen-linked Şifa Hospital in İzmir, according to a report in the Evrensel daily on Friday. Some 420 subcontracted workers were dismissed from their jobs at Ege University in April while waiting to be hired permanently. The dismissal of the workers came after the release of a government decree stipulating permanent employment for subcontracted workers. The workers were fired based on security investigations conducted by the İzmir Governor’s Office, the details of which were not shared with the public at the time. Some of the workers took legal action for reinstatement to their jobs. As the judicial process began, it emerged that the workers were dismissed from their jobs for such reasons as giving birth at Şifa Hospital, working as a doorman at a Gülen-linked university preparation course facility or sending their children to a Gülen-linked school on a state scholarship. Hundreds of schools, hospitals, media organizations as well as other businesses were closed down by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016. The government accuses the movement of masterminding the failed coup, although the movement strongly denies any involvement. Other reasons for termination cited in the dossiers of the workers who were fired include receiving treatment at the Gülen-linked hospital, a daughter or son serving as an intern at the Gülen-linked hospital, a son participating in football matches organized by Gülen-linked high schools, a child having a degree from a Gülen-linked university and having a bank account at the now-closed, Gülen-linked Bank Asya. Hüseyin Sağdıç, who was fired from his job at Ege University because his son took part in football tournaments organized by the Gülen-linked Yamanlar College in İzmir, told Evrensel his son was not a student at the school but only took part in the tournament for a period of four months. “We have been suffering for months. We have been undergoing financial and psychological problems. Our life has been turned upside down,” he said. Immediately after the failed putsch, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement. Fethullah Gülen, who inspired the movement, strongly denied having any role in the failed coup and called for an international investigation into it, but President Erdoğan — calling the coup attempt “a gift from God” — and the government initiated a widespread purge aimed at cleansing sympathizers of the movement from within state institutions, dehumanizing its popular figures and putting them in custody. Source |
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Detention warrants issued for 68 military personnel over alleged Gülen links
According to sources from the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, Güven died of a heart attack at Sincan F-Type Prison.
Turkish gov’t detains 15,190 over Gülen links in first half of 2018
The Çanakkale Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 23 active duty and 3 former military members as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for a total of 27 people for alleged use of a smart phone application known as ByLock, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
A Kayseri court sentenced a computer science professor, identified as K.A.P., to 6 year and 3 months in prison over terror charges. A former academic at the now-defunct Meliksah University, the professor was standing trial without arrest as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement
Two daughters of Yurt Atayün, a former police chief who was jailed in the summer of 2014 for taking part in a corruption investigation, have raised concerns about the safety of their father in prison and called on the relevant authorities to take action to maintain security in the country’s prisons, in video messages posted from the Twitter account of their father on Tuesday.
The Erzincan Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 17 active duty and five former military members as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. According to the report, 16 of 20 officers have been detained in police operations in 15 provinces.
At least six people were put in pre-trial detention as part of an investigation into the Gulen movement in Izmir, according to 
At least 5 women were detained over their suspected ties to the Gülen movement in a Manisa-based investigation, media 
A total of seven people were 
Celal Afşar, a 86-year-old businessman, has been put in pre-trial detention over his alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, which is accused of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
Turkish prosecutors on Thursday issued arrest warrants for 24 suspects linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey. Istanbul prosecutors issued arrest warrants over the suspects’ alleged involvement in infiltrating Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
Four executives of a major Turkish holding company linked to the July 15 defeated coup were convicted on Thursday in central Kayseri province, judicial sources told Anadolu Agency.
Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) has abducted yet another follower of the Gulen movement and forced him back to Turkey in the latest of such forced returns by the organization.
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday issued detention warrants for 30 military members who were recently dismissed by a government decree as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has located 4,600 suspected followers of the Gulen movement in 110 countries as part of its post-coup manhunt, pro-government Daily Sabah newspaper said Friday. Turkey monitors the activities of Gülenists in 160 countries, the daily said adding that the foreign ministry has so far located 4,600 suspected Gulen followers in 110 countries. “Until now more than 80 coup plotters from 18 countries have been brought back in a global manhunt,” the article read.
More than 100 members of Fetullah Terrorist Organization, the group behind the July 15, 2016 defeated coup, have been brought back to Turkey, the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
Thirteen active duty soldiers in Mardin, two in Elazığ, one in Samsun and a former police chief in Karaman were arrested on Wednesday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Gazeteduvar news website reported. Five active duty soldiers were also detained by local police in Balıkesir.
A key suspect in the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey who was just brought back from Ukraine has now been remanded in custody, judicial sources said on Thursday. Yusuf Inan, a Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO)-linked social media expert, had fled to Ukraine after the 2016 defeated coup attempt, and was brought back to Turkey on Sunday in an operation by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
Twenty-one businessmen including Mehmet Tahir Sekizkardeş, the owner of Gorgulu pastry shops chain were detained over their alleged ties to the Gulen movement.
Eight suspects, including former police chiefs, have been remanded in custody over their links to Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey, a Turkish court said on late Thursday. The suspects were remanded in custody over a FETO plot related to calling MIT head Hakan Fidan and other MIT officials to bear testimony in 2012.
A total of 334 people have been detained in the past week as part of a crackdown targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, according to a statement issued by the Turkish Interior Ministry on Monday.
At least 22 suspected members of FETO -- the terrorist group behind a defeated coup in 2016 -- have been arrested across Turkey for alleged involvement in police exam fraud, police sources said on Wednesday.
Nuran Gelen, a 20-year-old Celal Bayar University student has been held in a prison in Manisa province for almost fourteen months over his alleged links to the Gülen group, which accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt in 2016.
At least 5 people 
At least 45 people were detained in Turkish Cypriot while they were reportedly on their way to escape from Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown to Greece.
A total of 45 people, including suspected members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (
19 former university personnel sought by prosecutor over Gülen links
At least 209 people were detained as part of investigations into the Gülen movement over the past week, according to government data. In a written 
