Turkey seeks to arrest 55 suspected Gulen movement financers as crackdown widens

‘Turkish officials have issued arrest warrants for dozens more people, including business figures, over suspected affiliation to the network of US-based opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of having masterminded the failed military coup in mid-July.
Turkish-language NTV television news channel reported on Saturday that security forces from the Istanbul Police Department Financial Crimes Unit had raided 57 separate locations in the city and sought to arrest 55 suspects on charges of transferring large sums of cash back and forth between Turkey, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kazakhstan since 2014.
According to the report, some suspects were arrested in the raids, while police are still seeking others who are abroad and not found in their official addresses.’
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