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A former lawmaker from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen at his home in Pennsylvania with his family and stayed with him for more than four hours. 

Following controversy and confusion in the media over why Turkey's ambassador to Croatia, Ahmet Tuta, was withdrawn in August, a newspaper has claimed two former Turkish military attaches have applied for asylum in Croatia and are still in the country.

Turkey seized drugs worth 4 billion Turkish Liras in operations targeting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and drugs worth 75 million liras in operations against the Gülen movement, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Nov. 23 in a budget commission meeting in parliament.   

A court in Ankara began hearing on Nov. 22 a case into 73 suspects in the most extensive case yet against the Gülenist organization that is widely believed to have been behind the July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, with the leader of the group, Fethullah Gülen, being one of the prime suspects.

The legal suit against Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen and 72 of his supporters, accused of the coup attempt on July 15, has started in Ankara, reported BGNES.

The Prosecutor's Office has demanded a life sentence for Gulen and the nucleus which organised and carried out the coup.

The sons and brothers of victims of the July 15 coup attempt will not be forced to conduct military service unless they desire to do so, according to a new decree law issued on Nov. 22 as part of the state of emergency, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan was among the first leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on the day he was elected as the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan has stated that he is disappointed with the administration of Barack Obama due to its approach to refugees from the Middle East and the fact that it did not extradite Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara accuses of the coup attempt in July.

"They did not take up these events and did not approach these issues seriously," stated Erdogan on CBS.

President-elect Donald Trump has offered the influential post of national security adviser to his controversial campaign adviser, former general Michael Flynn, U.S. media reported Trump officials as saying on Nov. 17.

Istanbul prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 103 academic personnel and detained 73 from Istanbul's Yıldız Technical University, over alleged links to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, believed to have masterminded the failed July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.