'Third of Turkish judicial staff linked to FETO'

ANKARA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 5: Chairman of Turkey's Supreme Court Tuesday said that almost one-third of the country’s judicial staff was involved in Fetullah Terrorist Organization- (FETO) linked activities. Speaking at the judicial year opening day ceremony at Supreme Court of Appeals in capital Ankara, Ismail Rustu Cirit said it was traumatizing that the members of the country’s judicial staff were involved in terrorist activities. “It is of course a confidence-shaking situation for the society that almost one-third of judges and prosecutors, who are supposed to be entirely trustworthy, were involved in terrorist activities,” Cirit said. FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt of July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured. Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary. (Footage by Osman Bayturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
ANKARA, TURKEY - SEPTEMBER 5: Chairman of Turkey's Supreme Court Tuesday said that almost one-third of the country’s judicial staff was involved in Fetullah Terrorist Organization- (FETO) linked activities. Speaking at the judicial year opening day ceremony at Supreme Court of Appeals in capital Ankara, Ismail Rustu Cirit said it was traumatizing that the members of the country’s judicial staff were involved in terrorist activities. “It is of course a confidence-shaking situation for the society that almost one-third of judges and prosecutors, who are supposed to be entirely trustworthy, were involved in terrorist activities,” Cirit said. FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt of July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured. Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary. (Footage by Osman Bayturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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