TURKEY TURNS THE TABLES

Ankara : Turkish spies working in Sudan have repatriated a businessman accused of links to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen after he was caught in a joint operation, state media reported Monday.

Memduh Cikmaz is accused of giving millions to the movement run by US-based Gulen-

Who Ankara claims ordered the July 15, 2016 attempt to end President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's rule.

Cikmaz was captured in a joint operation involving Sudanese intelligence after the Turkish Intelligence Organization {MIT} located him two months earlier, security sources told Anadolu  news agency.

Cikmaz, with business interests in petrol stations and brick factories, was returned to Turkey early on Monday, the agency said.