ISTANBUL, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Turkish authorities detained 93 tax inspectors on Friday over their alleged links to the Gulen movement, which Ankara says was behind the failed coup attempt in 2016, local officials announced.
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said the operation was launched simultaneously across 11 provinces.
According to the statement, the operation targeted 94 tax inspectors working under the Treasury and Finance Ministry, including both dismissed personnel and those still in active service.
One suspect was believed to be abroad, with efforts to locate the remaining individual continuing.
Prosecutors said the suspects were identified as having used a payphone-based communication system, one of the covert methods allegedly employed by the network to maintain contact.
The Turkish government blames Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who lived in self-exile in the United States from 1999 until his death in 2024, for orchestrating a failed coup attempt in July 2016, which left at least 250 people dead and around 2,200 others injured. Türkiye has listed the cleric's network as a terrorist organization. Enditem
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