Arif Erdem

A Turkish court has begun extradition proceedings for a former football player who is accused of being a member of the Gulen movement, Turkish news site Diken reported on Thursday.

According to the news site, Arif Erdem fled to Greece after Turkish authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in July 2016, shortly after the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

An Istanbul court on Aug. 28 ordered the arrest of former Turkish international goalkeeper Ömer Çatkıç over allege links to the network of the Fethullah Gülen, the main suspect in the cases into the July 15, 2016 coup attempt.

Former Turkish international goalkeeper Ömer Çatkıç has been detained for alleged links to the network of Fethullah Gülen, the main suspect in the cases into last years' coup attempt, while Ahmet Şan, the chairman of Turkish First Division club Konyaspor, has testified to prosecutors over similar allegations. 

More than 7,000 people were dismissed with a new state of emergency decree published in the Official Gazette on July 14.

A total of 7,395 dismissals were carried out and 312 public workers were reinstated to their posts with the decree.

All I'm going to do is list a number of recent developments reported in the Turkish media over the past couple of days. I'll start with the most recent case demonstrating the state that Turkey is in:

The Galatasaray sports club's executive board has expelled former footballers Hakan Şükür and Arif Erdem, hours after government members criticized the club for voting to keep them as members at a general assembly.

Turkey's sports minister and a deputy prime minister have criticized Galatasaray's decision not to publically disown two former footballers known to have ties with the network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, widely believed to have orchestrated the failed July 15, 2016 coup attempt.

An Istanbul court accepted an indictment on Dec. 23 against the "football structure" of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), a network accused of instigating Turkey's July 15 military coup plot.