Turkey detains US army sergeant at Istanbul airport: pro-gov media
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Turkey detains US army sergeant at Istanbul airport: pro-gov media
US Army soldiers attend an official welcoming ceremony for US troops deployed to Poland as part of NATO build-up in Eastern Europe in Zagan, Poland, January 14, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Turkish authorities detained a sergeant with the US army earlier this week at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on the grounds he had ties with a "terrorist organization," pro-government media reported on Thursday.
The man identified Yahya Ozer (22) was an American with Turkish roots and was serving as a sergeant and translator at NATO's Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, claimed Aksam newspaper, which has close links to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's administration.
Ozer had an arrest warrant by a prosecutor in the Manisa province for alleged membership to the Gulenist movement, a Muslim Turkish group whose leader, Fethullah Gulen, resides in Pennsylvania. Erdogan's government labels the group, once powerful in the country's bureaucracy, a "terror" organization and claims it was responsible for mounting the botched military coup against the President's rule.
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I think Turkey is the trouble with our presence there, I will say again. I mean, otherwise, we'd just be going after the bad guys, mainly ISIS, al Qaeda and like groups.
