ANKARA, Oct 14 : Turkish authorities issued detention warrants on Saturday for 100 former police officers and have so far detained 63 of them, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, as part of a widening crackdown since last year’s failed coup attempt.
The suspects were believed to be users of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app which the government says was used by the network of U.
S.
-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of orchestrating last July’s abortive putsch.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies involvement.
The suspects were believed to be users of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app which the government says was used by the network of U.
S.
-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of orchestrating last July’s abortive putsch.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies involvement.
(Agencies)
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