The Criminal Investigations Department in Beirut arrested Wednesday a Turkish anti-Erdogan dissident who is wanted by the Turkish authorities on multiple arrest warrants.
Some 20,000 people have been arrested since the July 15 coup attempt, several thousand soldiers have been expelled from the army and more than 100,000 people, including civil servants, bureaucrats, teachers, soldiers and journalists, have lost their jobs as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan purges those he believes have links with Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania since 1999.
Ankara blames Gulen for the failed putsch.