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ISTANBUL, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 117 military personnel on Friday over their alleged links to a group believed to be behind a failed coup bid last year.
A police statement said simultaneous operations were launched in 45 provinces across the country to catch the suspects, some of whom have been serving in key units of the Turkish armed forces.
The Turkish government blames the coup attempt in July last year, in which 250 people were killed, on what it calls the Fethullah Terror Organization led by the U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
More than 50,000 people have been jailed and some 150,000 others suspended from their posts in the crackdown started in the wake of the failed coup.
