The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said 20 people had been detained as part of an operation conducted in October 2018.
In a statement, the prosecutor’s office said three of the detainees worked in private hospitals, while 17 had previously been dismissed from public institutions.
Judicial proceedings were continuing at the Ankara Police Department’s Anti-Terrorism Branch, the statement said.
The operation appears to be part of the continuing post-coup investigations launched after Turkey’s July 15, 2016 coup attempt, in which people dismissed from public service have frequently been subjected to later criminal probes.
The prosecutor’s statement, as reported, did not specify the evidence cited against the detainees or explain why private hospital employees were included alongside people previously removed from public institutions.
The inclusion of dismissed public employees reflects a recurring pattern in Turkey’s post-coup crackdown: emergency decree dismissals are often followed by detention operations, with administrative removal later used as part of criminal investigations.
