According to a report by Zaman, the arrests came after a law was signed allowing people to be arrested based on “reasonable doubt.”“This is shameful sight for Turkey,” Samanyolu TV group chairman Hidayet Karaca told reporters before he was also arrested. “Sadly in 21st century Turkey, this is the treatment they dish out to a media group with tens of television and radio stations, internet media and magazines.”
This is the latest crackdown on Gulen’s movement, which the Turkish government has accused of organizing plots to bring it down. Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. During a speech on Saturday, Erdogan vowed to “bring down the network of treachery and make it pay,” according to The Independent.
