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Timeline Gulen movement/FETÖ June 2019

09-Sep-2020

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12 June:

Detention warrants issued for 56 on charges of restructuring Gülen-linked education activities

The chief public prosecutor’s office in the southern Turkish province of Adana has issued detention warrants for 56 people on accusations that they were restructuring educational activities linked to the Gülen movement, the Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday.

Police teams raided the offices of six private prep schools in Adana on the grounds that they were opened as an alternative to Gülen-linked prep schools. The offices were searched, and some documents and computers were seized by the police. The Adana police detained 25 out of the 56 people for whom detention warrants were issued.


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13 June:

Turkish university student sentenced to 7.5 years over Gülen links


Muhammed Harun Bulut, a Turkish university student in Adana province, on Thursday was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

The court also ruled for a continuation of the defendant’s imprisonment while the verdict is appealed. According to Turkish media reports, nearly 70,000 university students are in prison, many of whom are accused of being linked to terrorist groups.

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15 June:

FETÖ members sentenced over exam fraud

Turkish prosecutors on Friday handed down prison sentences of nine years and seven months to 51 defendants affiliated with the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), for leaking 2012 police academy examination questions to their collaborators.

The trials were held in Ankara's 19th High Criminal Court. The defendants were charged of being members of an armed terror group and cheating in state institution exams. Ali Osman Arslan, Fatih Güler, Uğur Bayram and Ümit Cinkir were found guilty of delivering questions and answers to FETÖ-linked candidates who were taking the an examination to qualify to enter into Turkish state institutions. The court gave them extensive prison sentences of nine years and seven months and also slapped them with fines of TL 14,000. A number of defendants benefited from cooperating with authorities in the investigation. They will be free after completing a period of probation while a total of 18 defendants were acquitted of all charges. Read the full article

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18 June:

Turkey orders arrest of 128 military personnel suspected of terror links

Turkey has ordered the arrest of 128 military personnel suspected of supporting a group accused of orchestrating the July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu News Agency reported on Tuesday. Turkish police detained 15 suspects in the early hours of Tuesday during raids targeting the Gülen movement in multiple provinces, including the western province of İzmir and the central province of Konya, it said.

The Turkish government, which designates the Gülen movement a terror organisation, maintains the group was behind the failed putsch and a long-running scheme to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by infiltrating Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.  Officials are looking to detain another 48, who could not be located, Anadolu said.

Over 77,000 people accused of links to the group have been arrested and another 150,000 public employees suspended or sacked as part of a worldwide crackdown on the group by the Turkish government following the failed putsch of 2016.
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18 June:

50 detained, dozens wanted in new wave of operations against FETÖ

The Turkish authorities are on the trail of dozens of suspects, from active-duty soldiers to former employees at different ministries, in a new wave of operations against the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ).

Prosecutors in Ankara, İzmir, Konya, Bursa, Adıyaman and Erzincan have ordered the arrests of 194 suspects and 50 were already detained when Daily Sabah went to print.

The operations come three years after the terrorist group sought to overthrow the government through its military infiltrators. Two-hundred-and-fifty people were killed and hundreds of others injured when military officers affiliated with the group staged a coup bid on July 15, 2016. Read the full article

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20 June:

Aggravated life sentences for key figures in grand trial of FETÖ coup attempt
Akey trial where 224 defendants were tried for the July 15, 2016 coup attempt concluded Thursday when a court in the capital Ankara announced its final verdict.

The Fourth High Criminal Court handed 17 defendants of the main coup attempt trial, including former Air Force Commander Gen. Akın Öztürk who led the so-called "Peace at Home Council" that coordinated putschist soldiers across Turkey in the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, 141 aggravated life sentences.

Former Col. Ali Yazıcı, who was President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's military aide, and former Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide to then-Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar who was kidnapped by putchists, also received an aggravated life sentence.

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21 June:

FETÖ's 2016 coup bid: Trial closes chapter in history of coups

150 people, including coup leaders, were sentenced to life yesterday in the main trial over the FETÖ terrorist group's 2016 coup attempt, the latest in a country accustomed to coup attempts that barely found the power to punish their perpetrators.

The main trial concerning the July 15, 2016 coup attempt by military infiltrators of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) concluded Thursday with aggravated life sentences for 127 defendants and life sentences for 23 others.

It has been more than two years since over 200 defendants, from generals to colonels who switched their military uniforms to casual suits, were brought to a massive courtroom in the capital Ankara for the "çatı" (umbrella) trial. Reviewing thousands of pages of indictments, security camera footage, images and the accounts of witness after witness, the court handed down prison terms to 211 defendants and ordered a separate trial for 13 defendants at large. Read the full article

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24 June

Arrest warrants out for 40 FETO suspects

Turkish prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 32 people with suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, a judicial source said Monday. Arrest warrants were issued for the suspects as part of a probe into the terror group's clandestine network in the Turkish Land Forces, a statement by the prosecutors in the capital Ankara said.

The suspects were found to have communicated with “covert imams” -- a senior FETO member -- using pay phones, the statement read.  Some 17 of suspects were active-duty officers in the Turkish Armed Forces, it said, adding that administrative measures have been imposed for others. The suspects also include two “covert imams” of FETO, it said.

In addition, Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for eight FETO-linked suspects in simultaneous operations held in the provinces of Agri, Istanbul, Bursa, Samsun, Malatya, Sanliurfa, Mardin, Bitlis and Mus. Security forces arrested the suspects -- including four prison wardens, a teacher and three civilians -- accused of being members of the terror group and using phone lines used by senior level members of FETO.

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25 June:

Warrants out for 36 FETO terror suspects

Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for 36 people, including active-duty soldiers, for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, judicial sources said.

Prosecutors in the Aegean province of Izmir issued the warrants for suspects in 18 different provinces as part of an investigation into FETO's infiltration of the military, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

The suspects were allegedly found to have communicated with “covert imams” -- senior FETO members -- using pay phones. Some 22 suspects were active-duty officers in the Turkish Armed Forces.
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25 June:
Former military aide to Erdoğan retried in coup case
Ali Yazıcı, a former military aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and two other military officers, are being retried in a case involving an assassination attempt against Erdoğan.

Yazıcı, Col. Cenk Bahadır Avcı who was the commander of a military air base and Hüseyin Yılmaz, a former lieutenant-colonel, appeared before a court in the southwestern province of Muğla yesterday.

The Supreme Court had earlier ruled for the retrial of three men, citing sentences handed down earlier were insufficient. Yazıcı was sentenced to 18 years for aiding and abetting a crime while the Supreme Court ruled that he was in fact "the main culprit" in the case.Read the full article

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More than 30,000 arrested for Gulen movement links since the coup bid

The Interior Ministry announced Monday that 30,709 people have been taken into custody for their links to the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) since its members tried to seize power in a coup attempt in July 2016.

Speaking at a press briefing yesterday in the capital Ankara, ministry spokesman İsmail Çataklı said security forces "processed" 511,646 people on FETÖ-related charges over three years following the coup attempt that killed 251 people. "The process" refers to detentions and investigations. A total of 30,709 among them were arrested and are still in custody awaiting hearings in their cases or the start of their trials. Çataklı said another 19,329 people were convicted of FETÖ membership and related crimes. "We continue our fight against FETÖ with determination," the spokesman added. Source


Interior minister says more than 500,000 detained, 30,000 arrested over Gülen links

Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced on Wednesday night that more than 500,000 people have been detained while 30,000 others were sent to jail over alleged links to the Gülen movement.

Soylu’s remarks came during an interview on the 24 TV station.

The Turkish government accuses the Gülen movement of masterminding a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and labels it a “terrorist organization,” although the movement strongly denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.

Soylu was responding to a question about main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s claim that ordinary and poor people were being sent to jail due to Gülen links.

“More than 500,000 detentions were made, and there are 30,000 in jail [due to Gülen links]. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu lacks the capacity to understand the severity of this [fight against the movement].

Following the coup attempt, the Turkish government launched a massive crackdown on followers of the movement under the pretext of an anti-coup fight as a result of which more than 150,000 people were removed from state jobs in addition to others facing legal action.

 

Who are putschists slapped with heavy jail terms?

Nearly three years on, scores of convicts received heavy jail terms for their involvement in the defeated 2016 coup in Turkey. 

In the main trial of former general staff personnel, 224 defendants have been tried, including alleged members of the so-called "Peace at Home Council" -- a sub-group of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) -- which was meant to replace the government had the deadly putsch not been defeated.

On Thursday, 17 top putschists each faced 141 aggravated life sentences less than month before the third anniversary of the deadly July 15 coup attempt

FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.

Here are the main FETO convicts who received heavy jail terms: 

Akin Ozturk, former Air Force Commander General  

Ozturk, the key officer who plotted the coup from within the military, received a total of 141 aggravated life sentences.

Charges against Ozturk include violating the Constitution, attempted assassination of the president, trying to overthrow parliament, directing an armed terrorist group, mutiny, first-degree homicide, damaging public property, endangering public safety, harming houses of worship, and offenses against civil liberty.

Ozturk was charged with being a member of the FETO/PDY (Fetullah Gulen Terrorist Organization and Parallel State Structure) and a member of the so-called council.

The indictment also recounted a conversation when a person identified as Bayram Aktan asked then-Major Mehmet Akcara "Where is the commander?" referring to the loyalist Chief of General Staff General Hulusi Akar.

According to Aktan's statement, Akcara responded: "There is no commander. From now on Akin Ozturk is the commander." 

Former General Hakan Evrim, commander of Ankara's Akinci Main Jet Base

A member of the so-called "Peace at Home Council", Evrim was handed 141 aggravated life sentences for his involvement in the defeated coup.

He was the commander of Akinci Main Jet Base, which was used as headquarters during the attempt.

If the coup attempt had been successful, Evrim would have been slated to become the "Undersecretary of National Education".

Evrim asked then-Chief of Staff General Hulusi Akar to speak with Gulen, whom he described as an "opinion leader", while holding Akar under detention with other pro-coup forces. 

Mehmet Disli, FETO’s coup director

Also a member of the putschist council, Mehmet Disli received 141 aggravated life sentences.

He was the head of the General Staff's Strategic Transformation Department with the rank of major-general until FETO's treacherous coup attempt.

Disli said he would ask Akar -- currently serving as defense minister -- to cooperate and lead the coup attempt, after having planned the attempted putsch with two other former officers in the General Staff headquarters. Had Akar accepted, Akin Ozturk would have been second-in-command.

After face-to-face meetings with other FETO-member soldiers in the headquarters, he entered Akar's office to tell the four-star general that an operation against the government was imminent, only to be vehemently rejected by Akar.

Unable to persuade Akar to lead the coup attempt, Disli ordered his accompanying soldiers to detain him.

Akar was later taken to the Akinci Base via military helicopter.

FETO soldiers who lost hope after realizing the putsch would fail were forced to release Akar. Seeing this as an opportunity, Disli rode in the same helicopter as Akar to former seat of the now-defunct prime ministry at the Cankaya Palace in Ankara.

He was subsequently exposed by Akar who met with then-Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and reported Disli’s suspicious behavior throughout the night. Afterwards, Disli was detained. 

Ilhan Talu, General Staff personnel chief

Among the members of the putschist council, Ilhan Talu, a former lieutenant general, was slapped with an aggravated life sentence for violating constitutional order.

He served as the General Staff personnel chief until the treacherous coup attempt of FETO. 

Talu guided Special Forces personnel to the hallway of the General Staff headquarters and mislead Yusuf Yalcin, a guard of the second chief, and Mehmet Satun, a sergeant on duty, by saying an exercise was being carried out. 

In a court hearing, he claimed he alerted the authorities who were not involved in the coup attempt on July 15 after learning that it was a coup bid led by FETO. 

Levent Turkkan, aide of former chiefs of general staff 

Turkan started to serve as the aide of the then-chief of General Staff Gen. Necdet Ozel in 2011. After assuming the post, Turkkan started to receive secret missions from FETO. 

Turkkan had confessed he spied on Ozel during his post between 2011- 2015. 

Once General Hulusi Akar was appointed as the Chief of Staff, Turkkan said he stopped wire-tapping.

He proved his commitment to the FETO terror group during the coup attempt as being a part of the staff that entered Akar's room and gagged him.

After the thwarted coup bid, Turkkan said he surrendered to the military officials who turned him in to the police.



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