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Turkey may have to build new courthouses to cope with thousands of prosecutions following the failed July 15 coup attempt, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Sept. 28, as the number of arrests reached 32,000. 

Turkey has fired 87 employees of the secret service due to suspected links to the failed coup on July 15.

The officials fired are some of the 141 temporarily dismissed employees which are being investigated. 52 of the employees have been indicted on criminal charges.

A network of more than 150 U.S. charter schools linked to followers of Fethullah Gülen, the Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher the Turkish government blames for instigating the July 15 failed coup, has come under growing financial and legal strain, according to school officials, current and former members of Gülen's movement, and public records, Reuters reported on Sept. 26. 

Turkish security services have prepared a new list of 20,000 people who are suspected of being members of the organisation of Fethullah Gulen.

The list has been drafted on the basis of the ByLock application. The authorities claim that the application was used for communication by the members of the so-called Fethullahist terrorist organisation.

fThe cliché used in such cases is usually "the rise and fall." But this falls short in the case of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who now amounts to one of the major problems in Turkey-U.S. relations, under the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) rule.

Greek authorities on Wednesday detained ten Turkish citizens who allegedly arrived on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes after crossing from Turkey on a speedboat. The Turkish citizens, two couples with their children, told authorities they were seeking asylum in Greece.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 20 called on world leaders at the United Nations to take measures against the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen's "terrorist network" that he said threatened their security. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for international action against the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of orchestrating the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey.

No doubt, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım's visible shift to pragmatism after his predecessor's years of Islamist romanticism, and his efforts to soften the Great Turkish Divide on religious and secular lines, have won many hearts and minds both in the Crescent and Star and among its friends abroad. Mr.

Ankara has warned officials in the United States that they should detain Pennsylvania-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen before he escapes to another country, in a temporary detention request sent by the Turkish Justice Ministry to Washington on Sept. 13.