Turkey arrests 1,700 people for suspected terrorist contacts
Some 1,700 people have been arrested in Turkey in the past eight days as suspected followers of the exiled preacher Fethullah Gülen, Kurdish guerrillas or the Islamic State terrorist group, the Turkish Interior Ministry said.
Dec 27, 2016, 02:36 AM ISTTurkey arrest 1,600 over internet comments in 6 months
Turkish Interior Ministry said on Saturday that authorities arrested and remanded more than 1,600 people in the last six months for comments made on social media networks, the .
Dec 25, 2016, 01:47 AM IST