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TURKEY: Erdogan sacks 18,500 govt employees over alleged “terror links”

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TURKEY: Erdogan sacks 18,500 govt employees over alleged "terror links"

Newly re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the sacking of no less than 18,500 state employees for alleged “terror links”.

According to an emergency decree published in the country’s official legal database,18,632 people had been sacked as part of a crackdown following a failed military coup two years ago.

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Those sacked include 8,998 police officers, 3,077 army soldiers, 1,949 air force personnel and 1,126 from the naval forces.

Reports say some 1,052 civil servants and 199 academics were also among those dismissed, and at least three newspapers, a television channel and 12 associations were shut down.

Recall that Turkey has been under state of emergency since July 2016 following an attempted coup that tried to overthrow President Erdogan.

 

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