Turkey arrests 9 FETO-linked terror suspects

YOZGAT, Turkey

Police in Turkey arrested nine people over their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in the country, a security source said on Monday.

This came after the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in the central Yozgat province issued arrest warrants for the suspects, including active-duty personnel, as part of a probe into the terror group’s infiltration of the military.

In simultaneous operations carried out in the capital Ankara, Istanbul, Tunceli, Kahramanmaras and Elazig provinces, the suspects – including three active-duty soldiers, a retired soldier, a doctor, a teacher and former military students – were arrested, said the source on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people dead and 2,734 injured.

Ankara 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.

* Writing by Dilan Pamuk in Ankara

YOZGAT, Turkey

FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 251 people dead and 2,734 injured.

Ankara 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.

* Writing by Dilan Pamuk in Ankara