Bank Asya

Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has strongly criticized the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for its recent decision to rule against Türkiye in an individual case filed by a teacher convicted of affiliation with FETÖ, the organization behind the 2016 failed coup attempt.

Former footballer Zafer Biryol, who was wanted for "being a member of an armed terrorist organization," has been caught in an operation against FETÖ's "football structure" in Istanbul's Büyükçekmece district.

He was found to attend the FETÖ's meetings, visit Fethullah Gülen, the ringleader of the organization, in 2006 and have an account in Bank Asya, a FETÖ-linked bank.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has demanded up to 15 years in jail for the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç on charges of being a member of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have been behind the failed July 2016 coup attempt, daily Habertürk reported on July 12.

The value of assets belonging to companies seized by the Turkish state during the ongoing state of emergency is nearly 41 billion Turkish Liras (around $11.3 billion), Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli stated on July 7.      
 

Istanbul police have launched an operation to detain 78 former employees of the now-closed Bank Asya, including the lender's top executives, as part of a probe launched by Istanbul prosecutors into the network of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

Some 42 of the suspects were detained on June 16, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Police on May 12 detained 62 suspects in raids targeting former employees of the Istanbul stock exchange over alleged links to U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, widely believed to have been behind the July 2016 coup attempt. 

The wives of soldiers granted asylum by Norway after the July 15, 2016 failed coup attempt are among the suspects of the case into the leaking of Turkey's Public Personnel Selection Exam (KPSS) questions in 2010.
 

Some 53 people were detained in an operation targeting followers of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen at Turkish defense giant Aselsan. 

A court indictment ruled that some 5,000 academics have deposited cash in Bank Asya after an order from U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, as part of an investigation into the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). 

Ankara prosecutors on Jan. 5 issued detention warrants for 105 wives of military personnel on suspicions that they played a role in the July 15 coup attempt and for being members of the Gülen movement. 

The warrants came as part of a probe investigating alleged misconduct in the public personnel selection test (KPSS).