Turkey on Friday detained a former main opposition party lawmaker over alleged links to the group blamed for the 2016 attempted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media reported.
Istanbul prosecutors ordered the detention of Eren Erdem, an ex-MP for Istanbul from the Republican People's Party (CHP), over the charge of being "a member of a terror organisation", Anadolu news agency said.
Turkey accuses the movement led by preacher Fethullah Gulen of ordering the failed putsch and calls it the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation".
Gulen denies any links to the coup attempt.
"I have been detained. I don't know the reason. I was detained by police outside my home," Erdem said on Twitter in the early hours of Friday.
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