ANKARA, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police detained 41 people over the past 10 days in nationwide operations against the Gulen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday.
Of those held across 21 provinces, 25 were formally arrested and seven placed under judicial control, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X. Legal proceedings against the others are ongoing, he added.
The suspects are accused of working in the movement's information technology and current organizational structures, maintaining contact with senior figures and hiding in safe houses, Yerlikaya said. Some were already wanted for serving prison sentences or had been named in earlier testimonies.
Ankara designates the Gulen movement a terrorist group and blames it for a failed coup in July 2016 in which more than 250 people were killed. The movement was led by cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lived in the United States from 1999 until his death in 2024.
Since the coup attempt, Turkish authorities have arrested thousands accused of links to the network. ■