Turkey orders 117 soldiers detained over Gulen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 117 military personnel over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen accused by Ankara of orchestrating last year’s attempted coup, security sources said, Reuters reported.

They said counter terrorism police in the western province of Izmir launched an operation to detain the military staff, some of whom served in key units of the armed forces.

The personnel facing arrest had been in phone contact with senior members of the cleric’s movement between 2010 and July 15 last year when the coup was launched, the sources said.