Turkish coup d'état attempt

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he met with Fethullah Gülen in person in 2013 in the United States to urge him to stop conspiring against his government and to return to Turkey, in a last call to the self-exiled Islamic scholar. 

Hours after voting ended in an “election” in the breakaway Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus, ever-present Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was quick to “crack the whip” at the man elected to represent the Turkish Cypriot community.   

The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey has denied reports published by pro-government media that claim that U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is a Freemason.

Turkish police launched a new wave of raids on Feb. 8 in nine provinces against police officers who were accused of illegal wiretapping high-profile figures.

Istanbul prosecutors issued warrants for 21 officers, the official Anatolia news agency said. The raids were focused on Istanbul but also took place in the western province of Afyon and the Black Sea province of Zonguldak.

A statement by Egypt, which condemned Turkey?s comments on the ?Kerdasa Trial? verdict, describing them as having ?caused disgust and condemnation,? received an extremely harsh response within hours, as Ankara voiced its conviction that ?taking the statement by Egypt seriously is out of the question.?

The Turkish president has again called on foreign countries to shut down schools operated by supporters of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a U.S.-based ally-turned-foe, saying the Turkish state would happily replace those schools.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu continued his verbal attacks against the Gülen movement one day after ruling party deputies on a parliamentary commission elected not to send four ex-ministers to trial at the Supreme Council, in the face of corruption allegations.

Some twenty Turkish police officials were taken into custody on Jan. 5 across eight southern and central provinces, as part of an investigation into alleged illegal wiretapping.

According to Gaziantep Police Department's Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Unit, the arrests came after a Gaziantep prosecutor issued arrest warrants for the officers.

German prosecutors said Dec. 18 that they had arrested three Turkish men accused of spying on compatriots in Germany for Turkish intelligence, but Ankara denied that the suspects were linked to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

Turkey is passing through some rather unpleasant days. The president of the country is publicly targeting newsmen. The premier, talking at a local convention of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), says everyone was taking an examination nowadays. What examination?