Islamism in Turkey

Some 2.4 percent of Turkish public sector workers were discharged over their suspected links to the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.

Kurtulmuş also said legal procedures were carried out against nearly 115,000 public employees as part of efforts to discharge Gülenists.

The brother of a member of an investigation commission looking into state of emergency decrees has been dismissed from his duty over his alleged connection with the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) as part of a decree.

A psychological warfare that components of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) have recently started is a new perception operation. They started publicizing the full name of pilot Major O.K., who played a huge role in the prevention of the coup attempt on July 15, 2016 by informing the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) that Undersecretary Hakan Fidan would be kidnapped. 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office issued detention warrants on June 13 for 42 Interior Ministry personnel, who were previously dismissed or suspended from their duties after being determined to have used ByLock, an encrypted smartphone messaging application used by members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.    

Amid the Qatar crisis which is straining the entire neighborhood, Turkish politics has become occupied with a son-in-law crisis where the courts are accused of positive discrimination in the case of the relatives of key political figures of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti).

As the region boils with the current crisis between Qatar and its neighbors, Turkey's domestic agenda is still locked in the coup trials and the purges in government. There is no major political breakthrough in the court cases, but another high-level politician's son-in-law has been put behind bars.

An Ankara court on June 5 ordered the arrest of the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç after police detained him as a part of the ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), accused of being behind the failed July 2016 coup attempt.

Ekrem Yeter was detained at his residence and later referred to the prosecutor's office to testify.

Ankara police detained some 35 gendarmerie forces personnel on active duty as part of two ongoing investigations on June 5 into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which is accused of perpetrating the July 2016 coup attempt, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.  

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ slammed former top soldiers who are currently suspects in the main case into the July 15, 2016, coup attempt for denying their involvement in the events that took place at the general staff headquarters on the night of the coup, stating that the defendants "are acting in accordance with Fethullah Gülen's instructions."

A court in the western province of Tekirdağ issued detention warrants for 41 people working at Namık Kemal University on charges of having links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) early on June 2, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Among the suspects are reportedly also several academics, a hospital director and executives of the university.