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Turkey issues warrants for arrest of 42 journalists in coup probe

Xinhua, July 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Turkish authorities have issued detention warrants for 42 journalists after a failed military coup, CNN Turk reported Monday morning.

The move came after the arrest of Halis Hanci, a key aide to exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, and Mohammet Sait Gulen, Gulen's nephew.

Turkey, which accuses Gulen of being behind the failed July 15 coup, has demand the extradition of Gulen from the United States.

Last week, Turkey issued arrest warrants for 300 members of the Presidential Guard Regiment. It later disbaned the Guard.

More than 44,000 employees of state institutions have been suspended amid a nationwide probe into the coup attempt, for suspected links to the U.S.-based Gulen.

Earlier, the Education Ministry announced that 21,738 civil servants, 21,029 of them teachers, had been suspended; the Defense Ministry said 262 military judges and prosecutors were sacked.

Suspects will be tried at civilian courts in the Sincan district of Ankara, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said.

On July 18, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 208 people were killed by coup attempting soldiers, including 60 police officers, three soldiers and 145 were civilians.

Another 1,491 people also wounded.

More than 100 coup plotters were killed. Endit