Business as usual in Turkey?

Government issues warrants for 271 soldiers, including 10 colonels and a retired general.

“Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued arrest warrants for 271 soldiers suspected of links to Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric accused of orchestrating a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan two years ago.

“State media said security forces started conducting operations across Turkey in the early hours of Friday morning in response to the warrants.

“The Star newspaper said those facing arrest included 10 serving colonels and a retired general.

“About 160,000 people have been detained since the coup attempt in January 2016, and about the same number of civil servants have been dismissed from their jobs, the United Nations human rights office said in March.

“Of those detained, about 77,000 have been formally charged and kept in jail during their trials, the interior minister said in April.

“The European Commission said that under the Turkish state of emergency more than 150,000 people had been taken into custody, 78,000 arrested and over 110,000 civil servants dismissed. Turkish authorities say that some 40,000 have been reinstated in the process.

“The latest arrests come as Binali Yildirim, Turkey's outgoing prime minister, said on Thursday that a state of emergency in place since the coup would end on Monday as the country transitions to a new system of government in which executive power will be concentrated in the office of the presidency.

“’The new cabinet will be announced on Monday, and the state of emergency will conclude,’ Binali Yildirim told state-run Anadolu new (news?) agency.”

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-issues-arrest-warrants-soldiers-accused-gulen-links-622216344

Link at https://gatesofvienna.net/2018/07/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-7-7-2018/#more-46133

Since the days of Kemal Ataturk, the army has kept Turkey’s government from straying too far into repression. That idea seems to have gone by the wayside.