Turkey froze the assets of 770 Turkish nationals and a Chicago-based foundation, according to a decision published Friday in the country’s official gazette and signed by Turkey's interior, treasury and finance ministers.
The list of targets includes 454 people with alleged links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States.
Another 108 people were targeted for alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK, which is designated a terror group by Turkey and the United States.
Eighty-nine people with alleged links to leftist groups designated as terror organizations were also listed in the ruling. Gulen is the honorary president of the Chicago foundation that had its assets in Turkey frozen.
The Turkish government accused Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States, of masterminding the 2016 failed coup attempt.
Since the coup attempt, a total of 319,587 people have been detained and 99,962 arrested over alleged links to the movement as part of a massive purge launched under the pretext of an anti-coup fight.
At the same time, the Turkish government also removed more than 130,000 civil servants from their jobs on alleged Gulen links, according to the latest Interior Ministry data.
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