ANKARA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Turkish police detained 641 people in nationwide raids Tuesday over alleged links to the network behind the failed coup in 2016, state-run Anadolu agency reported.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ankara's main public prosecutor's office said officials had sent, to authorities in dozens of provinces, the names of 1,112 people under investigation over suspected ties to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of plotting the coup, and his movement, listed as a "terrorist organization" in Turkey.
Gulen members are often prosecuted over falsifying official documents or leaking examination papers in order to infiltrate their members in the state apparatus, including the police, the military and the judiciary.
Turkey accuses Gulen, who lives in a self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, of masterminding the botched coup that left 250 people dead.
