Ankara Persecutors Office
Turkey Detains 184 Alleged ‘Gulenists’ as Crackdown Continues
A Turkish flag in Istanbul, May 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN
Prosecutors in the cities of Izmir and Ankara ordered the arrests based on information from the Turkish National Intelligence Agency, alleging that the suspects have links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by Ankara of mounting a failed coup in 2016.