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Two judges under pre-trial arrest for alleged links to a purported illegal organization, which President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and his inner circle call the ?Fetullahist Terrorist Organization [FTÖ],? will be tried by a court in Istanbul?s Bak?rköy district.

Police forces have raided four schools in the capital city of Ankara with alleged linked to the Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) ally-turned-foe, U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. 

An Istanbul prosecutor has demanded a jail term of up to 34 years for U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen on charges of ?conspiracy, forgery of official documents and slander? as part of a probe on what is known as the ?parallel state? in Turkey.

Two former judges who were arrested for ordering the release of 76 suspects charged with alleged links to the ?parallel state? of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen face aggravated life sentences on multiple charges, according to an indictment prepared in the case. 

An Istanbul court has arrested two judges who ordered the release of 76 suspects charged with alleged links to the ?parallel state? of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

Turkey's TV watchdog has fined six private broadcasters for breaching a gag order on the parliamentary graft inquiry commission's process by "reading out newspaper articles."

The Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK) had announced that it would monitor TV broadcasters after the ban on the graft commission's inquiry was issued.

“Is that only two articles and a news item that you have against me?” Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of daily Zaman asked the judge. “Yes,” answered Bekir Altun, the Istanbul 1st Criminal Court judge.

Finally, the crackdown on the Gülen movement has been extended to the Gülenist media, and 16 people, including two editors-in-chief (of daily Zaman and Samanyolu TV), were detained on Dec. 14. The timing was also very symbolic since it was the anniversary of the Dec. 17-25 corruption probes against the government last year.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has opposed the detention of two media chiefs who were taken into custody in controversial weekend raids on journalists and television staff linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

"It is not right to deprive a person of their personal freedom for even a single day," Arınç told reporters on Dec. 19.

The year-long fight between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Fethullah Gülen community entered a new phase after the detentions of daily Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı and Samanyolu TV station editor Hidayet Karaca, along with more than two dozen others, mainly from the police department.