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Türkiye issues arrest warrant for 20 over failed coup in 2016

STORY: Türkiye issues arrest warrant for 20 over failed coup in 2016 DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Turkish police anti-terror operations against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency) 2. various of some detained FETO members by Turkish police anti-terror operations in Türkiye (courtesy of ihlas news agency) STORYLINE: Turkish prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 20 suspects over their alleged links to a network orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016, the Chief Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. The suspects were allegedly linked to the Gulen movement, which the Turkish government accuses of infiltrating the state bureaucracy and attempting the coup on July 15, 2016. Eleven of the suspects were still serving in the public sector, according to the office's statement. The suspects were found in contact with the group's senior members and infiltrated into the public sector through public payph

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S. Korea indicts 5 engineers attempting to cover up blackout at nuclear plant

SEOUL, South Korea - Photo shows the Gori-1 nuclear power plant in Busan, South Korea, on April 28, 2012. South Korean state prosecutors indicted five senior engineers at the plant on May 30, 2012, for allegedly attempting to cover up a blackout at the oldest nuclear facility in South Korea in February 2012.

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Acquitted gov't official

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki, who was acquitted of a postal abuse charge, takes part in an advisory panel meeting to reform Japan's judicial system on Jan. 27, 2011, at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo. Muraki, who was wrongly charged by the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, urged the government to make the investigative process fully transparent.

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Kasama appointed as Japan's top prosecutor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Haruo Kasama, who was appointed as prosecutor general, chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, on Dec. 24, 2010. Kasama succeeds Hiroshi Obayashi, who is to step down over an evidence-tampering scandal involving senior Osaka prosecutors.

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2 senior prosecutors arrested over data tampering

OSAKA, Japan - Toshio Yanagi, chief prosecutor of the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office, speaks at a press conference after 2 senior prosecutors were arrested over alleged data tampering, in Osaka on Oct. 1, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, and his former deputy earlier in the day in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal.

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2 senior prosecutors arrested over data tampering

OSAKA, Japan - Toshio Yanagi, chief prosecutor of the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office, bows and apologizes at a press conference after 2 senior prosecutors were arrested over alleged data tampering, in Osaka on Oct. 1, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, and his former deputy earlier in the day in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal.

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2 senior prosecutors held over data tampering

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, heads to Tokyo from Osaka on Sept. 23, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested him and his former deputy on Oct. 1 in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal.

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Crime data altering

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Hironaka, lawyer of senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki who was acquitted of abusing the postal discount system for handicapped people, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2010. Prosecutors are suspected of tampering with data seized during an investigation in the case.

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Crime data altering

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Hironaka (C in back), lawyer of senior welfare official Atsuko Muraki, who was acquitted of abusing the postal discount system for handicapped people, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2010. Prosecutors are suspected of tampering with data seized during an investigation into the case.

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Ministry raided over bureau chief's arrest in postal fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors head for the welfare ministry building in Tokyo for a search on June 15, a day after a senior ministry official was arrested for her alleged involvement in abusing a mail discount system for the handicapped.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007.

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(2)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 25, 2002, shows a government-funded power generation facility on Russian-held Kunashiri Island. On July 3, prosecutors arrested senior officials of Mitsui & Co. for allegedly interfering in the bidding process for the facility.

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Students protest rape case in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Students stage a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on July 19 to protest an alleged raping of a Japanese woman by U.S. Air Force Senior Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland. Japanese prosecutors indicted woodland, 24, later in the day.

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Woodland sent to prosecutors

NAHA, Japan - A police car escorting U.S. Air Force Senior Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland suspected of raping a Japanese woman arrives at the Naha District Prosecutors' Office on July 7. The airman was arrested July 6 by Okinawa police after the United States handed him over to Japanese authorities before indictment.

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Former Maruha official arrested for tax evasion

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Maruha Corp., Japan's seafood industry leader in Tokyo's Otemachi district, which was searched May 9 on suspicion of tax evasion. Prosecutors arrested the company's former senior official over the accusations the same day.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Prosecutors get papers on Kanagawa police cover-up case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The photo shows Kanagawa prefectural police headquarters in Yokohama. On Nov. 14, the prefectural police sent papers to prosecutors on six of their senior officials and three former colleagues on suspicion of involvement in the cover-up of a fellow officer's drug use in 1996.

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Kanagawa police chief apologizes for cover-up scandal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa prefectural police chief Tokumitsu Murakami apologizes for a cover-up scandal at a news conference held at Kanagawa police headquarters in Yokohama on Nov. 13. Papers on six of senior Kanagawa police officials and three former colleagues will be sent to prosecutors on Nov. 14 on suspicion of involvement in the cover-up of a fellow officer's durg use in 1996.

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Defense Agency raided over suspicion

Public prosecutors remove documents from the Defense Agency in downtown Tokyo after raiding it Monday Sept. 14 on suspicion that senior agency officials systematically destroyed certain records to cover up a procurement scandal. Investigators also raided the homes of several senior agency officials during the day.

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BOJ governor apologizes

Bank of Japan Governor Yasuo Matsushita (R) bows to the press at his office in Tokyo on March 11 after apologizing for the arrest by prosecutors earlier in the day of a senior central bank official on suspicion of receiving bribes from several major banks in the form of entertainment.

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Ministry raided over bureau chief's arrest in postal fraud

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors head for the welfare ministry building in Tokyo for a search on June 15, a day after a senior ministry official was arrested for her alleged involvement in abusing a mail discount system for the handicapped. (Kyodo)

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Former Maruha official arrested for tax evasion

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Maruha Corp., Japan's seafood industry leader in Tokyo's Otemachi district, which was searched May 9 on suspicion of tax evasion. Prosecutors arrested the company's former senior official over the accusations the same day.

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Senior land ministry official nabbed for suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - Watched by TV camera crews and news photographers, agents from the Sapporo District Prosecutors Office investigating a bid-rigging case involving a senior official of the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry carry away boxes of documents after a search for incriminating evidence at the ministry's Hokkaido Bureau in Tokyo on June 16. Mamoru Shinagawa, 58, who heads the Hokkaido bureau, is suspected of playing a leading role in collusion to award the contract for the public works project to a specific contractor between 2005 and 2007. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors quiz ex-defense contractor executive Miyazaki

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, a former senior managing director of defense contractor Yamada Corp., who is at the center of a scandal involving former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, covers his face with a newspaper as he leaves his home in Yokohama on Nov. 8. Miyazaki was questioned later in the day by Tokyo prosecutors on suspicion of embezzling the company's funds. (Kyodo)

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Prosecutors quiz ex-defense contractor executive Miyazaki

TOKYO, Japan - Motonobu Miyazaki, a former senior managing director of defense contractor Yamada Corp., who is at the center of a scandal involving former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya, covers his face with a newspaper as he leaves his home in Yokohama on Nov. 8. Miyazaki was questioned later in the day by Tokyo prosecutors on suspicion of embezzling the company's funds. (Kyodo)

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Welfare body chairman arrested over state subsidy scandal

OSAKA, Japan - Ichiro Ueno, a former vice chairman of Tokyo-based Zenkoku Seishin Shogaisha Shakai Fukki Shisetsu Kyokai (the national association for assisting the rehabilitation of mentally disabled people), is driven to the Osaka District Prosecutors Office on Oct. 20, 2009. He was arrested on suspicion of illegally receiving state subsidies from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, along with the current head of the organization and a former senior official. (Kyodo)

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Senior Kigenkai member seen as key player in violence on woman

NAGANO, Japan - Yasuko Kubota (R), a senior member of the religious group Kigenkai suspected of playing a key role in allegedly beating to death a female member last month, is escorted out of Karuizawa Police Station in Nagano Prefecture on Oct. 16 for referral to the Nagano District Prosecutors' Office. In addition to Kubota, 20 female Kigenkai members were arrested on Oct. 15 on suspicion of inflicting injuries resulting in the death of Motoko Okuno, 63, a sushi shop operator. (Kyodo)

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2 senior prosecutors held over data tampering

OSAKA, Japan - Motoaki Saga (2nd from front), former deputy chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, gets in a car to head to the prosecutors office on Oct. 1, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested him and his former superior in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal. (Kyodo)

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2 senior prosecutors held over data tampering

TOKYO, Japan - Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, heads to Tokyo from Osaka on Sept. 23, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested him and his former deputy on Oct. 1 in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal. (Kyodo)

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Kasama appointed as Japan's top prosecutor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Haruo Kasama, who was appointed as prosecutor general, chief of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, on Dec. 24, 2010. Kasama succeeds Hiroshi Obayashi, who is to step down over an evidence-tampering scandal involving senior Osaka prosecutors. (Kyodo)

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2 senior prosecutors arrested over data tampering

OSAKA, Japan - Toshio Yanagi, chief prosecutor of the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office, bows and apologizes at a press conference after 2 senior prosecutors were arrested over alleged data tampering, in Osaka on Oct. 1, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, and his former deputy earlier in the day in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal. (Kyodo)

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2 senior prosecutors arrested over data tampering

OSAKA, Japan - Toshio Yanagi, chief prosecutor of the Osaka High Public Prosecutors Office, speaks at a press conference after 2 senior prosecutors were arrested over alleged data tampering, in Osaka on Oct. 1, 2010. The top prosecutors office arrested Hiromichi Otsubo, former chief of the special investigation department of the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, and his former deputy earlier in the day in connection with a case of altering data seized in a postal abuse scandal. (Kyodo)

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Crime data altering

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Hironaka (C in back), lawyer of senior welfare official Atsuko Muraki, who was acquitted of abusing the postal discount system for handicapped people, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2010. Prosecutors are suspected of tampering with data seized during an investigation into the case. (Kyodo)

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Crime data altering

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Hironaka, lawyer of senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki who was acquitted of abusing the postal discount system for handicapped people, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2010. Prosecutors are suspected of tampering with data seized during an investigation in the case. (Kyodo)

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Acquitted gov't official

TOKYO, Japan - Senior welfare ministry official Atsuko Muraki, who was acquitted of a postal abuse charge, takes part in an advisory panel meeting to reform Japan's judicial system on Jan. 27, 2011, at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo. Muraki, who was wrongly charged by the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office, urged the government to make the investigative process fully transparent. (Kyodo)

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Senior METI official arrested over insider trading

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Masaaki Kimura, a senior official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Japanese prosecutors on Jan. 12, 2012, arrested him on suspicion of engaging in insider stock trading involving a state-led bailout for microchip maker Elpida Memory Inc. (Kyodo)

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(2)Senior Mitsui officials arrested in bid-rigging case

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 25, 2002, shows a government-funded power generation facility on Russian-held Kunashiri Island. On July 3, prosecutors arrested senior officials of Mitsui & Co. for allegedly interfering in the bidding process for the facility.

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Ex-senior official appears before prosecutors

Ahn Jong Beom (C), one of the senior presidential secretaries sacked by South Korea's embattled President Park Geun Hye for alleged involvement in an influence-peddling scandal, is surrounded by reporters when appearing at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Nov. 2, 2016, to be questioned by prosecutors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-senior official appears before prosecutors

Ahn Jong Beom, one of the senior presidential secretaries sacked by South Korea's embattled President Park Geun Hye for alleged involvement in influence-peddling scandal, appears at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Nov. 2, 2016, to be questioned by prosecutors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-senior official appears before prosecutors

Ahn Jong Beom, one of the senior presidential secretaries sacked by South Korea's embattled President Park Geun Hye for alleged involvement in influence-peddling scandal, appears at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Nov. 2, 2016, to be questioned by prosecutors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-senior official appears before prosecutors

Ahn Jong Beom, one of the senior presidential secretaries sacked by South Korea's embattled President Park Geun Hye for alleged involvement in influence-peddling scandal, appears at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Nov. 2, 2016, to be questioned by prosecutors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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AUM sarin maker Tsuchiya gets death sentence

TOKYO, Japan - Masami Tsuchiya (file photo), a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, is sentenced to death on Jan. 30 for playing a key role in making sarin and other poisons used in crimes allegedly committed by the cult, including the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack. The Tokyo District Court handed down the sentence as demanded by prosecutors. (Kyodo)

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Woodland sent to prosecutors

NAHA, Japan - A police car escorting U.S. Air Force Senior Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland suspected of raping a Japanese woman arrives at the Naha District Prosecutors' Office on July 7. The airman was arrested July 6 by Okinawa police after the United States handed him over to Japanese authorities before indictment.

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Papers on 9 Snow Brand execs sent to prosecutors

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Snow Brand Milk Products Co.'s plant in Taiki, Hokkaido. The plant former head Osamu Kubota is one of the nine company officials sent to prosecutors on March 16 on suspicion of professional negligence in the massive outbreak of food poisoning that hit western Japan last summer. Others include former Snow Brand President Tetsuro Ishikawa and former Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Soma. The powdered skim milk produced in Taiki was an ingredient in tainted dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt drinks made at Snow Brand's Osaka plant that led to widespread food poisoning in June and July last year.

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Prosecutors get papers on Kanagawa police cover-up case

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The photo shows Kanagawa prefectural police headquarters in Yokohama. On Nov. 14, the prefectural police sent papers to prosecutors on six of their senior officials and three former colleagues on suspicion of involvement in the cover-up of a fellow officer's drug use in 1996.

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Kanagawa police chief apologizes for cover-up scandal

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa prefectural police chief Tokumitsu Murakami apologizes for a cover-up scandal at a news conference held at Kanagawa police headquarters in Yokohama on Nov. 13. Papers on six of senior Kanagawa police officials and three former colleagues will be sent to prosecutors on Nov. 14 on suspicion of involvement in the cover-up of a fellow officer's durg use in 1996.

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Defense Agency raided over susp

Public prosecutors remove documents from the Defense Agency in downtown Tokyo after raiding it Monday Sept. 14 on suspicion that senior agency officials systematically destroyed certain records to cover up a procurement scandal. Investigators also raided the homes of several senior agency officials during the day.

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BOJ governor apologizes

Bank of Japan Governor Yasuo Matsushita (R) bows to the press at his office in Tokyo on March 11 after apologizing for the arrest by prosecutors earlier in the day of a senior central bank official on suspicion of receiving bribes from several major banks in the form of entertainment. ==Kyodo