Turkey detain 28
By our correspondents
June 26, 2016
ANKARA: Turkish police on Saturday detained 28 people over links to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s archfoe, US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, Dogan news agency reported.
In the latest crackdown, police carried out simultaneous raids in several cities including Istanbul as well as Konya and Kayseri in central Anatolia, the agency said.
Among other charges, the suspects are accused of "membership in a terrorist organisation," the Hurriyet newspaper reported on its website.
Police are searching for 23 other people including Rizanur Meral, the head of major business group the Turkish Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists (Tuskon), according to Dogan.
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