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At least three Turkish diplomats, reportedly including one military attache, are seeking asylum in Germany in the wake of the failed military coup in Turkey, believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), German media cited government sources as saying. 

Turkey has issued yet another 166 arrest warrants for security employees indicted for links with the cleric Fethullah Gulen who, according to Turkish authorities, organised the coup on July 15, reported BNT.

Police units carried out simultaneous operations in 35 provinces of the country and in 26 parts of Istanbul earlier on Friday.

A Turkish lawyer has filed a complaint against three senior U.S. soldiers, accusing them of making terror propaganda over the failed July 15 coup while claiming that some of the bombs used in the attempt did not belong to the Turkish military.

A total of 20 people have been arrested in a probe into the “sleeper cells” of the Gülen movement believed to have orchestrated the failed July 15 coup, a judicial source said Oct. 6.

A police officer has committed suicide in the Black Sea province of Bayburt after being suspended over alleged links to the movement of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, believed to be behind Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt. 

Both the Turkish government and the opposition parties want to find out the dynamics behind the bloody coup attempt of July 15. Both the government and the opposition parties accuse the secret network of U.S.-based Islamist scholar Fethullah Gülen of masterminding the coup attempt.

Some 540 soldiers from the naval and air forces command have been temporarily dismissed over their suspected links to U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gülen and his network, who is accused of orchestrating a failed coup in July, the Defense Ministry said. 

Some 427 of the soldiers were from the air forces while the other 113 were from the naval forces.

A total of 255 companies have been seized by the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) so far in the Turkish government's post-coup attempt measures, TMSF President Şakir Ercan Gül has said.

"Some 255 companies have been seized so far," said Gül in an interview on private broadcaster BloombergHT, Reuters reported. 

More than 100 detention orders were on Oct. 5 issued for military and intelligence personnel over alleged links to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup attempt. 

Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have orchestrated Turkey's failed July 15 coup attempt, is planning to flee from the U.S. in order to avoid being extradited, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has claimed.