Erdogan’s regime arrests 13 Turks over alleged links to coup attempt

The Turkish regime has arrested 13 people under the pretext of having links to the movement of the Turkish preacher Fathullah Gulen whom the regime accuses of masterminding the coup attempt in 2016.

Anadolu news agency, the mouthpiece of the Turkish regime, said on Tuesday citing police sources that among these 13 were two dismissed army majors and three teachers.

Since the coup attempt, The Turkish regime of Recep Tayyib Erdogan has launched a crackdown against its opponents countrywide. During this period, tens of thousands of opponents were arrested and some 150 thousand of Turkish workers, including government employees, army personnel, policemen, lawyers and journalists, were fired from work.

 Hamda Mustafa