‘FETÖ’ investigation into ‘strip search’ posts

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Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has announced that an investigation has been launched against the social media users who have alleged that there is strip search in prisons in Turkey. They are now facing charges related with the "Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)", which is held responsible for the military coup attempt on July 15, 2016.

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CHP Chair said 'they are all true'

After these allegations were voiced by Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kocaeli MP and Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Commission member Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu also talked about the issue in CHP's weekly group meeting yesterday (December 22). Repeating the "strip search" allegations, Kılıçdaroğlu said that "they were all true."

As reported by the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), the statement of Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has referred to "the signs suggesting that the persons making allegations in some media outlets and social media about strip search in police stations and prisons have been posting deliberate messages to legitimize the aims of the FETÖ armed terrorist organization against the State and Constitutional order of the Republic of Turkey and to raise publicity in line with this aim."

Against this background, the office has announced that an ex officio investigation has been launched against the related social media users.

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(EMK/SD)