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Monday, December 26, 2016
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Monday, December 26, 2016
Turkey rounds up 1,600 suspected terrorists
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkey’s justice ministry says 1,682 terror suspects were detained in the past week, according to Walla. Of that number, 516 are now under arrest.
Some 425 people are suspected of contact with Fethullah Gulen, a former Erdogan ally and cleric now living in exile in the US, who is accused of orchestrating the attempted coup in Turkey the summer.
Another 78 people are suspected of being touch with the Islamic State group and 12 people of involvement with the Kurdish underground.
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