Turkey seeks 191 soldiers for alleged tie to US-based cleric
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish prosecutors have issued warrants for the detention of 191 suspects , including 181 on-duty servicemen. They are suspected of involvement in a scheme that allegedly recruited followers of the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed for a failed coup in 2016 into air force training schools,. The state-run new agency says the suspects are accused of fixing air force schools’ entrance examinations between 2004-2016 to favor candidates with links to cleric Fethullah Gulen. At least 145 of the suspects were detained in raids in the western Izmir province and 22 other provinces. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies any involvement in the coup attempt, which left 250 people dead.
