A top terrorist of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in Central Asia was nabbed abroad in an operation by Turkish intelligence, Turkey’s president said Monday.

Including Orhan Inandi, the latest capture, over 100 FETO terrorists have been brought back from abroad since the group’s defeated 2016 coup in Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a three-hour-plus Cabinet meeting at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara.

FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated July 15, 2016 coup in Turkey, which left 251 people dead and 2,734 injured.

Ankara accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.

Turkey will continue efforts to fight and eliminate the FETO terror group, along with the terrorist PKK/YPG and Daesh/ISIS, Erdogan added.

“We have uncovered all the private structures and archives of the (FETO) organization in strategic institutions one by one,” he stressed.

Although the terror group stepped up its search for support abroad and campaigns against Turkey to stop its members from panicking, Erdogan said there is no safe place in the world for FETO terrorists.

Praising the efforts of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, he said several top Daesh/ISIS members have recently been arrested and sensitive documents captured.

Turning to the terrorist PKK, Erdogan said, “As a result of Turkey’s successful anti-terror operations, for the first time in its history, the PKK's so-called senior leaders cannot move, gather, or manage the organization in northern Iraq,” referring to a region near the Turkish border where the group often plans attacks.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian offshoot.

Anadolu Agency