Turkey detains 28 people over alleged financial links to cleric Gulen - Dogan agency


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  • Saturday, 25 Jun 2016

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained 28 people on Saturday over allegations of funding the movement of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a foe of President Tayyip Erdogan, the privately-owned Dogan News Agency reported.

The investigation included the head of a prominent business confederation TUSKON and financial police were searching for 23 other people in Istanbul and southern provinces of Konya, Kayseri and Mugla, the agency said.

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