Fethullahist Terror Organization

Turkey will take steps to try to prevent use of the term "Turkish school" by international educational facilities linked to the network of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated.

The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) expelled dissident member and former leadership candidate Meral Akşener from the party on Sept. 8, less than a month after she was referred to disciplinary board along with three members of an emergency convention delegation.

Crisis management centers will be set up across the country in order to combat wrongful prosecutions made as part of the investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced.

A total of 27 businessmen were arrested on Sept. 8 as part of an ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), which has been accused of staging the failed coup attempt of July 15, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

There is a handy expression in Turkish. The chicken translation of it reads as "the wet burns together with the dry," referring to wood burning in the fireplace. It basically means "the innocent suffer along with the guilty."

It is a particularly well-known expression in Turkish because it can be applied to many examples over our 1,000-year history in this region.

The chairman of the MetroPOLL polling company, Özer Sencar, was detained on Sept. 7 in Ankara as a part of the ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), believed to be behind the failed coup attempt of July 15.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will pay a two-day visit to Ankara on Sept. 8 and 9 to both show the alliance's support and solidarity with Turkey following the defeated coup attempt on July 15 and to discuss developments in Syria, after the Turkish army launched an incursion into its southern neighbor to fight against jihadists. 

Footage published by a Turkish broadcaster appears to show that six former gendarmerie intelligence officers who are currently being tried over links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) were complicit in the 2007 assassination of journalist Hrant Dink.

Boydak Holding has been transferred to the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) as part of the investigation into Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt, Doğan News Agency reported late on Sept. 5. 

Complaints and news stories on the apprehension of the innocent alongside the real suspects are increasing. The issue is growing into a social victimization dimension. Students, civil servants, journalists, businessmen, academics, judges and prosecutors are being detained, so much so that the prime minister feels the need to make frequent warnings.