Turkish authorities last week detained 1,682 people over suspected links to militants and arrested 516, the interior ministry said Monday, with more than 1,000 of those detained suspected of having links to exiled US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Some 110,000 people have been sacked or suspended in the civil service, army and judiciary and 36,000 people jailed…..Ankara defends its actions saying they are necessary precautions in the face of ongoing nationwide terrorism.
Erdogan is using the failed coup against him as a pretext to round up his enemies and opponents. Turkey is not letting anyone dictate how it cracks down on “terrorism,” no matter how unjust and abusive Turkish authorities are in their arbitrary roundup and detention of so-called terrorists. Turkey’s other major concern is “Islamophobia”; Erdogan wants it declared a crime against humanity.
Notice also the severe lashing Israel receives globally, and especially from the UN, as the Jewish State justifiably defends itself from jihad terror. But about these repressive measures of Erdogan, the UN is silent.
Turkish authorities last week detained 1,682 people over suspected links to militants and arrested 516, the interior ministry said Monday, with more than 1,000 of those detained suspected of having links to exiled US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Ankara says Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen orchestrated an attempted coup in July, with 1,096 of his suspected supporters detained and 426 of those subsequently arrested.
Another 508 people were detained for suspected links to Kurdish militants and 78 of those were arrested, the ministry said. Authorities detained 78 people for alleged links to the Islamic State group and arrested 12, it added.
Turkey declared a state of emergency soon after a failed coup in July, detaining thousands of citizens and purging tens of thousands of public servants over alleged ties to outlawed groups as well as to Gulen.
Some 110,000 people have been sacked or suspended in the civil service, army and judiciary and 36,000 people jailed pending trial in the investigation of the failed putsch, in which over 240 people were killed. Gulen has denied involvement in the coup.
Western governments, human rights group and legal experts have repeatedly expressed concern over the crackdown, which some say has begun targeting political opponents and critics. Ankara defends its actions saying they are necessary precautions in the face of ongoing nationwide terrorism.
This year Turkey has seen a series of attacks and bombings in major cities that were the work of either the Islamic State group or Kurdish militants.
Turkey frequently restricts access to social media websites to prevent the spread of graphic images and other material that authorities say would harm public order or security.

Sam says
This supposed fight against terrorism is so blatantly fake that anyone with just a little awareness of Erdogan’s politics and dictatorial Islamic goal.
This guy was buying oil from ISIS and guarding and treating ISIS “freedom fighters” in Turkish hospitals. He wants to be the Caliphate for the Islamic world to bring Turkey back to the “glory” days of Ottoman empire which was nothing but a brutal family (killing each other day and night) run Islamic business.
This guy is nothing but a power thirsty dictator and is using any excuse to expand his power. The only thing going against him is nobody really likes the guy.
I am originally from Turkey and after my last family visit to Turkey last year, I decided that I will not go there again as it is so painful to see that country going backwards to Islam again.
Drgnfly says
Sam, what is your opinion on Gulen? I found out recently that he is behind many science/math based charter schools in the US and has had some shut down for breaking out immigration laws among other things. Just wanted to see if you have a definite opinion on the man, as he’s hard to find anything about.
harbidoll says
Gulen is just as “Islamic” as others but he wants his jihadists Educated! Modern tho Im surprised he wants to integrate women into the world.
gravenimage says
I am sorry that Turkey is re-Islamizing, Sam.
A Harris USA says
No offense, but I feel for the people who want a secular Turkey… Attaturk had it right!! The new leader of Turkey is just another Islamic dictator… As bad tempered as the beautiful Turkish Van Cats.. I know….. But this guy Erdonan is dangerous to all of the Turks, and the west.. What and where is he putting these people he is arresting??? My guess they are going into a mass grave… Send us your Christian, and Van cats, and Angora cats… Then go to war rebellion, and get that guy out of office and put in a SECULALR Turk, maybe a Van or Angora Cat…. Better choice than what is there now…
Angemon says
Either Fethullah Gulen is a real-life James Bond villain or Erdonga is doing what fascists have historically done: gaining power through fear.
EmHotep says
“The Gülen movement (extreme islamist) is a former ally of the Turkish Justice and Development Party (extreme extreme islamist). When the AKP came to power in 2002 the two formed, despite their differences, a tactical alliance against military and the secular state”.
– Same shit different color Fethullah makes jihad via pen and pencil until the time comes, Erdogan is openly making jihad by using every available tool
“Since 11 December 2015 the Gülen movement is classified as a terrorist organization in Turkey under the name Gülenist Terror Organisation”.
– Simply because they could not be able to share the profit and money that they rip off from Turkish people..
Note: – Gulen movement is an Official supporter and donator of Clinton and democrats .-Erdogan is an unofficial supporter and donator of Clinton and democrats
To me they all need to be exterminated from the face of world .. Enough is enough of islam ..
ibrahim itace muhammed says
emhotep,you are just a fool the traitor conniving with jews and their slaves the mithraist filthy christians to destroy turkey.if you are a real turkish you will not support anarchy there, because it will affect the economy.you yourself know that erdogan brought blessings to turkey.turkey never recorded economic growth comparable to erdogant’s era.you now want chaous to ensue so as to move the economy backward. i doubt much if you are truly from turkey.if you are from turkey and you dont want stability of its economic growth,you must be very stupid maron.may be you were born at baby factory like other filthy christians from the west.
EmHotep says
ibrahim, what I believe is that, there is a war between civilized world and savage islam … So as Turkish civilised person I stand up with good people..
Resistance is futile you will be exterminated.
Lekum dînukum veliye dîn
A Harris USA says
EmHotep, I agree!! Save the good people of Turkey form this savage in office now!! BTW, USA will give refugee status to those BEAUTIFUL Cats of yours!!
gravenimage says
The foul ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
emhotep,you (sic) are just a fool the traitor conniving with jews (sic) and their slaves the mithraist (sic) filthy christians (sic) to destroy turkey (sic).
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How is noting that Gülen is Islamist treason against Turkey? muhammed’s boy Erdogan himself opposes him, as the story above makes clear.
Of course, as EmHotep notes, they are just rivals–the aim of both is further Islamizing Turkey.
More:
if (sic) you are a real turkish (sic) you will not support anarchy there, because it will affect the economy.you (sic) yourself know that erdogan (sic) brought blessings to turkey.
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Only if you consider dismantling secular Kemalism a “blessing”…
…as muhammed no doubt does.
More:
turkey (sic) never recorded economic growth comparable to erdogant’s (sic) era.you (sic) now want chaous(sic) to ensue so as to move the economy backward. i (sic) doubt much if you are truly from turkey.if sic) you are from turkey and you dont (sic) want stability of its economic growth,you (sic) must be very stupid maron (sic).
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No one should be surprised that muhammed considers a dictatorship to be “stability”. Very Islamic.
muhammed simply cannot believe that there are any civilized people like EmHotep remaining in Turkey–instead he has to rant about “jews and their slaves the mithraist filthy christians”.
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may (sic) be you were born at baby factory like other filthy christians (sic) from the west.
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What is it with muhammed and his fantasy about “baby factories”? Most Westerners are born into loving homes, and none of them are born in “baby factories”, since they do not exist.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
hotep,you are rubbish.you consider imitating christian western way of nudity,having sex with pigs and donkeys,absence of purification that causes horrible bad smells,a civilisation ?it is savagery?those whose evil book tells a father to dip his finger into his daughter’s vagina to prepare her have taste sex at tender age.see song of songs 20:13-18 .do it to your daughters to become full secular practioner now. these are filthy legacies left by idiot kemal ataturk(may allah curse) secularism which stemed from belief that god was defeated or dead.muslims believe that allah is alive and relevant at all times.hotep, you are a rascal and madman of evil you learnt from children of the devil the jews.bullshit idiot,the son of whore!!
No Fear says
Ibrahim itace muhammad, you call Christians filthy and the Jews children of the devil. You are a supremacist like Hitler. If muslims are the “best of people” then why don’t they invent anything? It is a simple fact that they are not the best of people by any measure on earth. By which measure are they “the best”? By the measure of a military gangster called Mohammed who only wanted followers so he could use them in his army? Mohammed’s great and single achievement was convincing a bunch of losers that they are “the best of people”. If you want to discuss something intelligent such as the Riemann hypothesis then I am ready to do so. Until then take your supremacist racist garbage and go.
No Fear says
Erdogan may as well arrest the entire Turkish population. Then he might feel safer.
He is such a precious snowflake. Poor dear.