Turkish authorities have detained more than a thousand people suspected of having links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The overnight crackdown was one of the largest operations in months against the network, which Turkey blames for orchestrating a failed coup in July.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, 1,009 people were detained so far. The operation was launched in all of Turkey’s 81 provinces and targeted the network’s structure in the police force.
Soylu described the arrests as an important step towards the government’s aim at bringing down the Gulen movement.
