Fethullahist Terror Organization

More than 170 jails will be built over the next five years in Turkey, according to a statement from the Justice Ministry. The ministry's move comes after the overcrowding in jails caused by the arrests linked to the July 15 failed coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ).

"[President] Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proven to be a world leader. He mends fences with Russia. And now the U.S. is jealous. Did you see how [U.S. President Barack] Obama was looking at Erdoğan and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin during the G-20 Summit?" an elderly acquaintance recently said to me. 

"Who broke ties with Russia in the first place?" I asked. 

The social democratic main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) announced on Sept. 14 that it had received some 30,000 complaints so far from people who believe they have been unfairly treated in the probes into Turkey's bloody coup attempt of July 15.

Ankara's anger against U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass over his expression of concern regarding the appointment of trustees to 28 local municipalities due to alleged terror links continues to simmer, with Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu describing Bass' remarks as "provocative." 

A lawyer has resigned from defending U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who is believed to have orchestrated the July 15 failed coup attempt, saying that he and the people around him suffered from the movement's actions. 

Notorious former prison torture methods have reemerged during the state of emergency declared after the July 15 failed coup attempt, in addition to overcrowding and poor conditions in Turkey's jails, according to the Human Rights Association (İHD). 

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has registered the complaints of around 30,000 people negatively affected by government measures to clear the state of suspected members of the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), believed to be behind the failed July 15 coup, a CHP official has said. 

The Turkish government has taken measures in the dismissals of public service workers in the post-July 15 coup attempt period "in order to confine [dismissals] to those who were part of the attempt and institutions or persons who acted against national security," Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said in a written statement on Sept.

There is a growing trend in the pro-Justice and Development Party (AK Party) media in Turkey against Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy. Tune into one of the news channels that support the president and you will see them overjoyed about the U.S. Clinton's illness during the 9/11 memorial ceremonies.

The government has covered significant ground in the fight against the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) but there is still a long way to go, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, vowing further measures against the organization, which is blamed for Turkey's failed coup attempt of July 15.