{"id":22206,"date":"2026-02-23T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22206\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:43:07","slug":"turkish-court-orders-arrest-of-54-in-latest-gulen-movement-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22206\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish court orders arrest of 54 in latest G\u00fclen movement crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/arrests.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"441\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"arrests\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arrests-696x441.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"441\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/arrests-696x441.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"arrests\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of 54 of 70 people detained last week in coordinated raids across four provinces as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, the state-run TRT Haber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trthaber.com\/haber\/turkiye\/kayseri-merkezli-feto-operasyonu-54-supheli-tutuklandi-934982.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals were <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkey-detains-148-people-arrests-52-over-alleged-gulen-links\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken into custody<\/a> on February 17 in \u0130stanbul, Kayseri, Adana and Mersin as part of an investigation launched by the Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The court released the remaining 16 detainees under judicial supervision pending further proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities accused the detainees of participating in religious gatherings and engaging in alleged \u201crestructuring\u201d activities of the movement. During the raids police officers seized religious books, digital materials and bank cards issued by the now-defunct Bank Asya, a lender affiliated with the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has been targeting followers of the G\u00fclen movement, inspired by the late Muslim cleric Fethullah G\u00fclen, since corruption investigations in December 2013 implicated him as well as some members of his family and inner circle.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissing the investigations as a G\u00fclenist coup and a conspiracy against his government, Erdo\u011fan began to target the movement\u2019s members. He designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016 and intensified the crackdown on it following an abortive putsch in July of the same year that he accused G\u00fclen of masterminding. The movement strongly denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest figures from the Justice Ministry, more than 126,000 people have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/more-than-126000-convicted-over-11000-arrested-as-turkeys-post-coup-crackdown-enters-9th-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convicted<\/a>\u00a0for alleged links to the movement since 2016, with 11,085 still in prison. Legal proceedings are ongoing for over 24,000 individuals, while another 58,000 remain under active investigation nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the thousands who were jailed, scores of other G\u00fclen movement followers had to flee Turkey to avoid the government crackdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Turkish court on Friday ordered the arrest of 54 of 70 people detained last week in coordinated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[6873,311,312,429,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-22206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-crackdown-on-gulen-movement","9":"tag-gulen-movement","10":"tag-human-rights","11":"tag-oppression","12":"tag-stockholm","13":"tag-sweden","14":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}