Ankara prosecutor's office completes broad indictment against Gülenists

Followers of the Turkish Islamic-scholar Fethullah Gülen still hold crucial illegally-obtained data, according to an indictment revealed on July 15 by the state-run Anadolu Agency, also adding that Gülen sympathizers received "support from foreign countries." 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office has completed a major investigation into the Gülenists and opened a case against 73 suspects linked to the group. It claims the group completed its organizational formation in 2007 started identifying itself as the "sole de facto ruler of the state since Sept. 12, 2010." 

In the indictment, the prosecutors detail the structural establishment of the group, its activities since its formation, the state institutions into which it has infiltrated, and its alleged crimes.  

The document claimed that the group, "runs de facto by Gülen … has a cadre system in the judiciary, the army, the police and the ministries," tried to bring these institutions into its authority to transform them into its armed forces. "The establishment formed an unconditional [religious] communal sovereignty, organized vertically and in parallel to the state," it added. 

The indictment also claimed that the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) was the state institution into which the group has organized most comprehensively and where it has secured most authority. It said some of the group's members "have mentioned civil war and military coups [by] relying on this structuring within the TSK."     

Meanwhile, the indictment stated that Gülen sympathizer have "copied all memory data" accessed by the organization since 1995. "They hold all kinds of information and data of the state in their hands," it claimed, including archives, saved confidential or non-confidential...