Turkey seeks arrest of ex-football star in coup probe


Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for its former international football star striker Hakan Sukur in the probe over the failed July 15 coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said on Friday.
Hakan Sukur

Sukur is accused by prosecutors in Sakarya province east of Istanbul of being a member of the organisation of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen who Ankara claims was behind the coup.

His arrest is sought on charges of “membership of an armed terror group”, the state-run Anadolu agency said, referring to what Ankara calls the Fethullah Terror Organisation (FETO).

Gulen denies such a group exists and accusations he was the mastermind behind the coup.

The agency added that a similar warrant has also been issued for his father Selmet Sukur.

The report said neither man had been found at their Istanbul and Sakarya residences after the warrant was issued, adding Sukur and his family had left Turkey last year.

He is currently believed to be in the United States.

Sukur was one of the stars of Turkey’s third place performance in the 2002 World Cup and a household name in the football-mad country.

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