TEHRAN, September 26 - Turkish authorities detained 33 soldiers and six others for suspected links to the network of the U.S.-based cleric Ankara says orchestrated the 2016 attempted coup, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, March 9 - Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 243 people, including 92 teachers, in operations targeting suspected followers of the Muslim cleric the government blames for a failed 2016 coup, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Friday.
TEHRAN, February 2 - Turkish authorities on Friday ordered the detention of 13 people for supporting the national medical association online, the newspaper Hurriyet reported, after the organization publicly opposed a military campaign in Syria.
TEHRAN, January 29 - Turkey detained more than 300 people for social media posts criticizing its military offensive in Syria, the government said on Monday, a day after President Tayyip Erdogan accused doctors who opposed the campaign of betrayal.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Turkish police have detained 54 staff from a university shut down after an attempted coup last year that was blamed on U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, state-run Anadolu news agency said on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, November 5 - Russian police detained at least 380 activists across the country on Sunday for holding unauthorized protests against President Vladimir Putin, a monitoring group said.
TEHRAN, July 31, YJC - Turkey said in the course of a single week it has detained 1,098 people either for their suspected links to terrorist groups or over having affiliation to the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed by Ankara for purported masterminding and orchestrating last year’s failed putsch against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
TEHRAN, April 20, YJC - A Bahraini rights group said the Manama regime has sentenced 52 political prisoners to a total of more than 313 years in jail over the last week alone.