A Turkish Court ordered the arrest of two military officers after one phone call was made from a payphone to check if one of the officers had lost his cellphone.
According to Soczu daily’s report, two military officers were detained in December 2018, facing charges of belonging to the Gulen group led by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which is deemed by Ankara as a terrorist organisation that allegedly planned the aborted 2016 coup.
The call took place in 2012, and one of the detained, a sergeant, claimed that he called his mobile phone to check if he had lost it. He then called his flatmate afterwards, who is the other military officer detained with him for receiving a call from the same phone.
The evidence against the one officer was his phone call data that showed a received call from a payphone that was allegedly used by the Gulen movement members to contact military personnel.
These two phone calls constitute the only evidence forming the base for the detainment of the two officers.
One officer was released with judicial control after the hearing, while the sergeant who called his own cell phone was arrested by the court.
Many believe that those who are accused of being Gulen followers often face charges based on far-fetched evidence by prosecutors.
In tandem with these beliefs, receiving repeated calls from pay phones is assumed as direct evidence, by Turkish courts, to prove ties to the Gulen movement. Most of the time “proving ties” is enough for the sheer affiliation with the movement that was criminalised after the failed coup attempt.
Since the attempted 2016 coup, some 150,000 civil servants have been expelled from their jobs on accusations of affiliation with the group, and some 40,000 people are currently imprisoned on allegations of membership.
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