title: Turkey detained more than 1,200 people in last week
text: ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish security forces detained 1,210 people over the last week for suspected links to militant groups or last year s failed coup, the interior ministry said on Monday.  A total of 947 of those were detained for suspected links to the network of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara holds responsible for a failed coup in July last year. Gulen denies any involvement. Another 205 were detained for suspected ties to the Kurdistan Workers  Party (PKK), which has carried out a separatist insurgency against Turkey for three decades. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the conflict. Forty-nine people were detained over alleged links to Islamic State and nine others more were held for suspected ties to  leftist terrorist groups , the ministry said. Following the July 2016 coup, Turkey has arrested more than 50,000 people and sacked or suspended more than 150,000 in the military, civil service and private sector. 