Viewfinder: Turkish Students Publicly Protest Teacher Arrests

Author:: Pacific Standard Staff
Publish date:: Mar 30, 2018

Students of Mehmet Akif College hold pictures of their Turkish teachers as they demonstrate against their arrest in Pristina on March 29th, 2018. In an operation carried out between Turkey's National Intelligence Organization and Kosovo's spy services, six high-ranking members of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement were brought back home on a private plane, Anadolu news agency reported, citing security sources. — Students of Mehmet Akif College hold pictures of their Turkish teachers as they demonstrate against their arrest in Pristina on March 29th, 2018. In an operation carried out between Turkey's National Intelligence Organization and Kosovo's spy services, six high-ranking members of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen's movement were brought back home on a private plane, Anadolu news agency reported, citing security sources.
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