Turkey: Erdogan regime arrested 34 others for alleged links to exiled religious Fethullah Gülen

Turkish security forces arrested another 34 people on Tuesday because of their alleged links with Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of being behind the July coup attempt. 2016.

According to information collected by the Turkish news agency AnatoliaThe arrests took place as part of an investigation into the alleged infiltration of the cleric's network into the armed forces.

The Ankara prosecutor's office believes that the suspects have maintained communications with magnets connected to Gülen through telephone booths. Among the detainees, there are several officers of the army.

The arrests took place one day after the arrest of 46 former police officers for their alleged links with the Islamist cleric.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan admitted in April that more than 30,500 people imprisoned in Turkey were accused of maintaining links with the Gülen network. The Turkish regime considers members of the cleric as a terrorist organization.

At a rally in front of the police headquarters to commemorate the 174th anniversary of his body, Erdogan warned that he was still far from "completely cleaning up" the state institutions of this "gang" traitors ".

Ankara thinks that the army and other state institutions have infiltrators of the Gülen network, former ally of Erdogan who has denied his involvement in the coup and has been living since 1999 in the US state of Pennsylvania, explained the agency EuropaPress

While Erdogan's critics claim that the military coup is a pretext for crushing the opposition, the Turkish authorities insist that these measures are necessary to counter the security threats. national.