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Three teenage boys, aged 16 to 19, were arrested in the Netherlands during overnight raids in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Alkmaar as part of an ongoing terrorism investigation, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) confirmed to multiple media. The suspect arrested in Eindhoven was previously in custody for his support for the terrorist organization ISIS.
Heavily armed police officers raided three homes in Rotterdam, Eindhoven, and Alkmaar during the early hours of Wednesday morning. In at least Eindhoven and Rotterdam, they came out with suspects handcuffed and blindfolded. In Eindhoven, the police used an explosive to get inside the home. According to Eindhovens Dagblad, the 19-year-old arrested in Eindhoven today was also arrested in 2023 for allegedly planning ISIS terrorist attacks targeting Belgian nightclubs and police stations. The then-16-year-old boy was arrested along with a 19-year-old man from Deventer and a Belgian teen. On Telegram, they chatted about various scenarios for attacks, beheadings, and purchasing weapons and explosives. In early 2024, the Rotterdam court sentenced the Dutch boy to 112 days in prison, community service, and an ankle monitor. He wasn’t allowed to leave the Netherlands for some time and was placed under the supervision of the probation service.
The police and OM have made no official announcements about the overnight arrests on their channels. The three suspects are expected to be arraigned on Friday. More information will likely become available then.
In a separate case, a Norwegian teenager was convicted on Wednesday of conspiracy to commit murder in Britain after being recruited by a Swedish organized crime group that prosecutors said was being used by the Iranian government. Johannes Natland, now 19, was arrested in a hotel room in Huddersfield, northern England, in March last year with two firearms and ammunition in his possession.
Prosecutors said Natland had been recruited by the Foxtrot Network, a Swedish organized crime group used by the Iranian government.
Meanwhile, Bülent Kemik, a former police officer dismissed from his job and later imprisoned over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died of colon cancer on Tuesday in the central province of Nevşehir, the TR724 news website reported. Kemik, 51, was dismissed from the Aydın Police Department by an emergency decree following a 2016 coup attempt. He and his wife were detained in February 2017, after which he spent a year in pretrial detention in Aydın Prison.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has targeted the Gülen movement, a worldwide civic initiative inspired by the ideas of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, who died in 2024, since corruption investigations in December 2013 implicated him as well as some members of his family and inner circle. He dismissed the probes as a Gülenist conspiracy and designated the movement as a terrorist organization in May 2016, intensifying a sweeping crackdown after the coup attempt in July of the same year that he accused Gülen of orchestrating. The movement denies involvement in the coup attempt or any terrorist activity.
Kemik was sentenced to more than seven years in prison but was released pending appeal. His conviction was based on his alleged use of ByLock, an encrypted messaging app, once widely available on Apple’s App Store and Google Play, that Turkish authorities claim was used as a secret communication tool for Gülen supporters. In 2023 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in a landmark case that convictions based on ByLock use and other alleged Gülen-linked activities, such as having an account at a movement-affiliated bank, violated the rights to a fair trial, no punishment without law and freedom of association. An appeals court subsequently reduced his sentence to more than six years. His case was pending before Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals at the time of his death.
Kemik was diagnosed with cancer after his release from prison. He moved to Nevşehir with his family and worked at a bakery to support them but was forced to stop as his illness progressed. He had been undergoing treatment for the past three years. He is survived by a wife and two children.
Following the coup attempt, the Turkish government declared a state of emergency that remained in effect until July 19, 2018. During this period, the government carried out a purge of state institutions under the pretext of an anti-coup fight by issuing a number of government decrees.
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