{"id":29008,"date":"2016-09-29T03:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/turkey-32-000-jailed-for-links-to-group-behind\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T03:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T03:15:10","slug":"turkey-32-000-jailed-for-links-to-group-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/turkey-32-000-jailed-for-links-to-group-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey: 32,000 jailed for links to group ‘behind’ coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Justice minister confirms arrests of almost half of the 70,000 people investigated following July’s failed coup attempt.}<\/p>\n

Turkish courts have placed 32,000 suspects under arrest on charges of links to a group run by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for the July 15 coup, the justice minister said.<\/p>\n

Bekir Bozdag told Turkey’s NTV television on Wednesday that 70,000 people had been investigated after the coup and of them 32,000 remanded in custody. <\/p>\n

“This process is continuing,” he said. The numbers of those arrested marks an increase of more than 10,000 from those previously given by the government.<\/p>\n

Bozdag said that there could be new arrests, while some of those currently arrested could still be freed under judicial control or freed entirely.<\/p>\n

Some 10 weeks after the coup attempt aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led to an unprecedented crackdown, there is still no indication as to when trials might start.<\/p>\n

The trials of tens of thousands will be the biggest legal process in Turkey’s history and are set to put the system under immense pressure.<\/p>\n

“It is not entirely clear how the trials will be carried out,” Bozdag acknowledged.<\/p>\n

He said trials would take place in cities across the country and not in one single venue.<\/p>\n

Bozdag said there was no need to create a special trial venue in Istanbul as capacity was sufficient. But he said one was needed in Ankara and work is taking place for a trial venue at Sincan outside the capital.<\/p>\n

“People are not going to be put on trial in just one place but trials will take place in all of Turkey,” he said.<\/p>\n

US officials will respond to Turkey’s demand to arrest Gulen within a couple of days, the justice minister added.<\/p>\n

Turkey wants the US to extradite Gulen, who has lived in Pennsylvania since 1999, and prosecute him for masterminding the attempt to overthrow the government on July 15. The 75-year-old preacher denies any involvement.<\/p>\n

Washington has previously said it is cooperating with Ankara and asked its NATO ally for patience as it processes the extradition request to meet US legal requirements.<\/p>\n

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