Turkey Turns Screws on Gulen Supporters in Moldova

At 5.30am, on March 31, Turgay Sen, a Turkish national and director of the Horizont chain of private high schools in Moldova, was on his way to Bucharest to attend a conference.

He never reached his destination. Instead, Sen was detained at Chisinau airport and officers of the Moldovan intelligence service, SIS, and organized crime and terrorism prosecutors, interrogated him for seven hours, he told the media the same day after his release.

He said he was accused of financing terrorism and banned from leaving the country for 10 days, until April 10. “It was so fast I didn’t know what hit me,” he told journalists.

Sen’s detention came only two days after six Turkish citizens, five teachers and a doctor, were extradited from Kosovo to Ankara by the Turkish secret services.