Turkey orders arrest of 85 energy and education ministry staff

  16 May 2017    Read: 1077
Turkey orders arrest of 85 energy and education ministry staff
Turkey ordered the arrest of 85 energy and education ministry staff in an investigation targeting the network of a US-based cleric whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating last July's attempted coup, broadcaster CNN Turk reported.
No details were immediately available on the latest arrest warrants which came after a court on Monday jailed the opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet's online editor pending trial on a charge of spreading terrorist propaganda, Reuters cited the paper as saying.

Some 50,000 people have been formally arrested in court cases targeting supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen.

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