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Turkey President shuts down 15 media houses, sacks 10,000 civil servants
Hard stance Turkey leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has continued his post-coup crackdown, shutting down 15 more pro-Kurdish media outlets and dismissing another 10,000 civil servants over suspected links with “terrorist organisations” and US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
In an unprecedented crackdown the government says is necessary to root out all coup supporters from the state apparatus, more than 100,000 people have already been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested since the July coup attempt.
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The crackdown which has witnessed the arrest of thousands of academics, teachers, health workers, prison guards and forensics has been denounced by opposition parties which has also raised concerns over the functioning of the state.
“What the government and [President Tayyip] Erdogan are doing right now is a direct coup against the rule of law and democracy,” Sezgin Tanrikulu, an MP from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said in a Periscope broadcast posted on Twitter.
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