Türkiye's Interior Ministry exposes 177 social media accounts engaged in FETÖ propaganda

Following the death of FETÖ's leader, authorities uncovered 177 social media account managers involved in promoting the organization online. 

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced this discovery on his social media page on X, Caliber.Az reports.

"Our Cybercrime Department has identified 177 social media account managers who participated in FETÖ propaganda, sharing laudatory posts and condolences after the leader's passing," the post reads.

He emphasized that departments focused on combating cybercrime, terrorism, and security have initiated actions against these account managers in response to their activities.

Devlet Bahçeli, the chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which is allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling party stated that there is no place in Türkiye to bury Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen since he was a member of a terrorist organisation.

"There is no place in this world even for the FETÖ leader. I wish for him to burn in hell forever. This terrorist should have no burial place in Türkiye; he should rot where he showed hostility toward our country." 

Adding to this sentiment, Omer Celik, the spokesperson for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), echoed Bahçeli’s strong remarks, stating there would be "no place for Gülen to be buried." He elaborated on this position by declaring, "This terrorist leader, the architect of a network of treachery and murder, was used to undermine our sovereignty. Such traitors do not find a resting place after their use. He died as a man without citizenship." 

Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish cleric accused of masterminding a bloody attempted coup in 2016, died aged 83 on October 21.

The cleric, who had been living in self-imposed exile in the US, died after being admitted to a Pennsylvania hospital.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said intelligence sources had confirmed Gülen's death, describing him as the leader of a "dark organisation".

FETÖ and its US-based ringleader Fethullah Gülen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, in Türkiye in which 252 people were killed and 2,734 wounded.

Ankara also accuses FETÖ of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary.

By Tamilla Hasanova