Gülen Movement

The Interior Ministry suspended 1,218 gendarmerie personnel from duty on Nov. 3 in the latest measure in the probe into the failed July 15 coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Gülen movement.

The suspended personnel include 419 officers and 604 sergeants, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

Daily Hürriyet has excoriated the pro-government Sabah newspaper for insinuating that a recent interview in the former with the rights holder for an app allegedly used by the Gülenists was part of a "joint operation carried out" by the group and the CIA.

Daily Hürriyet has excoriated the pro-government daily Sabah for insinuating that a recent interview in the former with the rights holder for an app allegedly used by the Gülenists was part of a "joint operation carried out" by the group and the CIA.

The usage of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that is said to have been used by members of the Gülen Movement under U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who is accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15, could show evidence of links to Gülen, according to a Turkish-origin U.S. citizen, who has been revealed to be the patent holder for the app.

A Turkish-origin U.S. citizen has been revealed to be the patent holder of ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that is said to have been used by members of the Gülen Movement under U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, who was accused of orchestrating the failed coup attempt of July 15.

The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has reinstated a total of 198 judges and prosecutors previously suspended as a part of the ongoing investigation into Turkey's failed coup attempt of July 15.

I will begin this piece with an honest confession: As a Turkey observer, I failed in the first decade of this century to foresee the second decade. By the year 2010, I was very optimistic about "New Turkey," believing it was on the road to becoming a liberal democracy. By 2016, however, we are, at best, a very illiberal democracy.

A coordination meeting on the fight against the "parallel structure" (The Gülen Movement) was held on March 30, presided over by Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu and with the participation of the interior, justice and finance ministers, as well as the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T).

A board of trustees has been appointed to run a Turkish broadcasting company and publishing houses over "strong evidence" of links to the to the Gülen Movement, the followers of U.S. based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

The extradition of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen was "unofficially" demanded in a civil suit filed last week by lawyers hired by the Turkish government, while a judge who accepted the appeal has given Gülen 21 days to respond to accusations filed against him.