Police search for 41 FETO suspects across Turkey

By Serdar Acil and Aylin Sirikli

ANKARA (AA) – Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued on Tuesday arrest warrants for 41 suspects, accused of having links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), as part of an ongoing probe.

Police has conducted simultaneous operations in seven provinces in the early hours of the day to hold the suspected employees of the Court of Accounts, including those dismissed earlier from their duties.

The early morning operations are ongoing.

Turkey has remanded 47,155 suspects accused of having links to the FETO since July 2016 foiled coup, the nation's interior minister said Sunday.

According to the Turkish government, the FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 2016, which left 249 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

Ankara has said FETO is behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.