Turkey dismisses thousands more police, civil servants and academics

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Source: Reuters



July 14, 2017 / 1:00 PM / 7 minutes ago




ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed more than 7,000 police, civil servants and academics on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of last year's attempted coup.

The latest decree is part of a crackdown triggered by the failed coup, which Turkey says was organised by U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan. Gulen denies the allegation.

In all, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 150,000 officials, and arrested some 50,000 people from the military, police, judiciary, academia and other sectors.

The latest decree dismissed 2,303 police, including some from senior ranks, alongside 302 academics from universities across the country. The decree also stripped 342 retired officers and soldiers of their ranks and grades.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-purge-idUSKBN19Z22U

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Things just keep getting worse in Turkey

[Catmusicfan]

1. If our own country wasn't about to burst into the flames of Chaos

I would be holding my breath...

[Sanity Claws]

2. I wonder if this will start another flow of migrants seeking asylum

for political reasons.
Clearly Erdogan is retaliating against people and preventing them from earning a living.

[defacto7]

3. We could be looking at our own future....

if we don't pull our democracy back from the brink.

[barbtries]

4. it's painful to watch

them going backward.

like us, kinda

[Blue_Tires]

5. I see that half-assed "coup" has been very advantageous for that little despot