{"id":60489,"date":"2018-04-03T10:35:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60489"},"modified":"2018-04-03T10:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T09:35:57","slug":"ankara-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-karlov-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ankara-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-karlov-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara court issues arrest warrants for Karlov murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An Ankara court issued arrest warrants for eight people, including FETO terror group leader Fetullah Gulen, who are suspected to be linked to the 2016 assassination of Russian envoy Andrey Karlov.<\/h2>\n<p>According to judicial sources who cannot be named due to restrictions on talking to media, the arrest warrants came after a link between Karlov&#8217;s assassin Mert Altintas and Fetullah Gulen was detected.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons cited for the arrest warrants include &#8220;pre-meditated murder&#8221; and &#8220;attempt to overthrow constitutional order&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the judicial sources, evidence and witness statements allowed the investigative bureau to suspect <strong>FETO<\/strong> members in security headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The warrants target Fetullah Gulen, Serif Ali Tekalan, Cemal Karaata, Cengiz Ozkan, Emrullah Uslu, Hamza Sevinc, Murat Tokay and Temel Alsancak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrey Karlov<\/strong> was assassinated at an art exhibition in the Turkish capital, Ankara on Dec. 19, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He was delivering a speech when the assailant, 22-year-old Turkish policeman Mevlut Mert Altintas, opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that martyred 250 people and left nearly 2,200 injured.<\/p>\n<p>Ankara also accuses the group of a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ankara court issued arrest warrants for eight people, including FETO terror group leader Fetullah Gulen, who are suspected to be linked to the 2016 assassination of Russian envoy Andrey Karlov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,174],"tags":[77550,7618,77496,599],"class_list":["post-60489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-daily","tag-andrey-karlov","tag-ankara","tag-feto","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}