Turkey on Monday issued arrest warrants for 72 university staff, including a former adviser to the main opposition leader who staged a mass rally on Sunday.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), told a huge crowd that Turkey was living under dictatorship and pledged to keep challenging the government after completing a 25-day protest march from Ankara to Istanbul.
State-run Anadolu news agency reported that the warrants were issued under an investigation into the movement of the U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the attempted coup on July 15.
Police have so far detained 42 of the staff from Istanbul’s prestigious Bogazici University and Medeniyet University, which is based on the Asian side of the country’s largest city, Anadolu said.
According to a CHP official,…
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