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31-Dec-2020 |
Osman Özpınar, İbrahim Akbaş and Adnan Demirönal are accused of “international espionage” as well as “managing an armed terror organization,” a judicial source said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking with the media. On April 10, Turkish intelligence officers brought the three suspected senior FETÖmembers to Turkey following an operation against the group in Gabon. The group was brought to Turkey from the capital Libreville on a private plane. 3 ‘Gulenist’ educators abducted by Turkish intelligence in Gabon arrested on terror charges in Turkeyby TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2018 Three Turkish educators who were rendered to Turkey from Gabon by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) on April 8 have been arrested for alleged “membership in a terrorist organization” and “international spying,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday. The educators are believed to be affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen group, which is a accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The group denies any involvement. Osman Özpınar, İbrahim Akbaş and Adnan Demirönal were arrested by the Istanbul Penal Court of Peace after testifying at the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. The three men, who were detained in Gabon on March 23, were taken to Turkey from Libreville by private jet and were interrogated by Turkish police. A high criminal court in the Turkish capital of Ankara on April 18 handed down a jail sentence of 18 years to Alaaddin Duman, a teacher who was deported from Malaysia to Turkey due to his links to the Gülen movement in 2016, on terror charges. Duman was given the jail sentence by the Ankara 15th High Criminal Court on Tuesday on charges of membership in a terrorist organization. 20 April 2018: FETÖ's Gabon trio formally arrested for espionage, terrorismThree senior figures of the Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ), which is blamed for the 2016 coup attempt, were remanded in custody days after they were brought from the tiny African country Gabon where they took shelter. After hours of interrogation by a court in Istanbul, Osman Özpınar, İbrahim Akbaş and Adnan Demirönal were formally arrested on charges of running a terrorist group and international espionage. The trio was arrested in Gabon's capital Libreville and was brought to Turkey on April 10 by security forces. The operation was the latest step in the international manhunt against the group that brought 80 FETÖ suspects to justice after their arrests abroad. All three suspects were being sought by separate arrest warrants issued by Turkish courts on charges of membership to an armed terrorist group. The suspects were detained by Gabonese security forces on March 23. Özpınar, who was the manager of the FETÖ-linked "Gabon International Turkish School" in Libreville, also held the titles of educational coordinator and general director at the "Light Academy" schools in Kenya. He was also among the detected users of FETÖ's secret communication application Bylock. Demirönal was the manager of the FETÖ-linked Işık Schools in Gabon, formerly known as Ecole Privee International Turco-Gabon. He is also accused of being the country "imam" in Gabon for FETÖ, a name given to the terrorist group's point men responsible for followers in lower ranks in the group's hierarchy. 15 April 2018: Praising abductions, Erdoğan says Gülen will be brought to Turkey, tooOsman Özpınar, İbrahim Akbaş and Adnan Demirönal were caught in Gabon in a MIT operation and taken to Turkey by private jet last week. |