{"id":56732,"date":"2026-04-07T14:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:31:14","slug":"turkey-detains-16-over-alleged-gulen-movement-ties-as-crackdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56732\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains 16 over alleged G\u00fclen movement ties as crackdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/detention-1.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"501\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"detention\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/detention-1-696x501.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"501\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/detention-1-696x501.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"detention\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 16 people over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, the TRT Haber public broadcaster reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police launched simultaneous operations across 12 provinces to detain the suspects, some of whom are former civil servants dismissed by government decrees, as well as civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan has targeted 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. He dismissed the probes as a G\u00fclenist conspiracy and later designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016, intensifying a sweeping crackdown after a coup attempt in July of the same year that he accused G\u00fclen of orchestrating. The movement denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.<\/p>\n<p>Following the failed coup, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency (OHAL) that remained in effect until July 19, 2018. During this period, the government carried out a purge of state institutions under the pretext of an anti-coup fight by issuing a number of government decrees, known as KHKs. Over 130,000 public servants, including 4,156 judges and prosecutors, as well as more than 24,000 members of the armed forces were summarily removed from their jobs for alleged membership in or relationships with \u201cterrorist organizations\u201d by emergency decree-laws subject to neither judicial nor parliamentary scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office claimed some of the detainees were accused of using ByLock, an encrypted messaging application that was once widely available online.<\/p>\n<p>Turkish authorities have considered ByLock to be a secret tool of communication among supporters of the G\u00fclen movement since the coup attempt on July 15, 2016, despite a lack of evidence that ByLock messages were related to the abortive putsch.<\/p>\n<p>Although the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has in many cases made clear that use of the ByLock messaging app does not constitute a criminal offense, detentions and arrests of individuals continue in Turkey for their alleged use of the application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 16 people over alleged links to the faith-based G\u00fclen movement, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[422,423,18946,425,426,311,312,427,428,429,431,131,132,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-56732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ak-party","9":"tag-akp","10":"tag-bylock","11":"tag-democracy","12":"tag-erdogan","13":"tag-gulen-movement","14":"tag-human-rights","15":"tag-justice","16":"tag-law","17":"tag-oppression","18":"tag-rule-of-law","19":"tag-stockholm","20":"tag-sweden","21":"tag-turkey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116363912069638370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56732","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=56732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}