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Passport restrictions for more than 180,000 people linked to the religious established in the United States accused of a Turkish coup in Turkey in 2016 will be lifted "in a few days", announced Saturday the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to dpa, quoted by Agerpres.
The government imposed restrictions on 181,500 family members of supporters of the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen to prevent them from leaving the country as part of the purges that followed the failed coup d'état
Ankara estimates that Gulen's global movement is an organization a terrorist allegation that the cleric, a former ally of Erdogan, rejects.
"Now that investigations and trials have reached a certain point, the passport restrictions for 181,500 people will be lifted in a few days," Erdogan continued to severely attack Gulen, speaking of "the abolition of FETO ", using an acronym for the support of the self-exiled cleric in the United States
After the failed coup d'etat, as a result of which the state of emergency was imposed, the government has significantly strengthened the measures against the assumption Gulen supporters. More than 70,000 people have been arrested for links to Gulen since 2016.
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