Sedat Laciner former rector of the Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University was arrested Saturday in the province of Canakkale northwest of Turkey as part of an investigation into an armed organization to overthrow the government reported police sources .

According to sources, the police launched an operation in different locations in the province early in the morning and arrested Sedat Laciner and many other businessmen.

The suspects are alleged to be part of a conspiracy of a “parallel state” Fethullah Gulen led by an Islamic preacher in the US who runs a network of schools and commercial enterprises in Turkey and in the world.

Sedat Laçiner led ISRO – USAK or in Turkish – which is nothing but a nationalist think-tank and has published extensively in the publication of the organization the “Journal of Turkish Weekly” that reject Armenian genocide claims, which he described as “so-called genocide.”