CNN in International News :
Turkey has now fired or suspended about 50,000 people after a failed coup over the weekend as it intensifies its vast purge – battering the country’s security forces and many of its democratic institutions.
Teachers, journalists, police and judges alike have been caught in a net authorities are casting wider by the day, in what is increasingly looking like a witch-hunt to suppress dissent.
Western leaders have urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government to respect democratic principles and act within the law in response to talk of reviving the death penalty and heavy-handed punishments over the coup. The purge has gutted the leadership in the country’s security forces, with at least 118 generals and admirals detained, stripping the general-rank command of the Turkish military by a third, according to Turkish state broadcaster TRT. Authorities have also suspended 8,777 Ministry of Interior personnel, mostly police, as well as 100 Turkish intelligence service personnel, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. Here’s a tally of who has been affected, according to Anadolu: 21,000 teachers in private institutions have had their licenses revoked; 15,200 Education Ministry
personnel have been suspended and are under investigation; 2,745 judges and prosecutors have been listed for detention, although it is unclear if they have all been detained, and; 1,577 deans have been asked to resign.
Anadolu reported that Turkey’s top broadcasting authority on Tuesday revoked the licenses for 24 radio and television companies that it said are linked to Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan blames for masterminding the coup.
Turkey on Tuesday formally requested the extradition of Gulen from the United States, where he lives in self-imposed exile.
Turkey has now fired or suspended about 50,000 people after a failed coup over the weekend as it intensifies its vast purge – battering the country’s security forces and many of its democratic institutions.
Teachers, journalists, police and judges alike have been caught in a net authorities are casting wider by the day, in what is increasingly looking like a witch-hunt to suppress dissent.
Western leaders have urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government to respect democratic principles and act within the law in response to talk of reviving the death penalty and heavy-handed punishments over the coup. The purge has gutted the leadership in the country’s security forces, with at least 118 generals and admirals detained, stripping the general-rank command of the Turkish military by a third, according to Turkish state broadcaster TRT. Authorities have also suspended 8,777 Ministry of Interior personnel, mostly police, as well as 100 Turkish intelligence service personnel, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. Here’s a tally of who has been affected, according to Anadolu: 21,000 teachers in private institutions have had their licenses revoked; 15,200 Education Ministry
personnel have been suspended and are under investigation; 2,745 judges and prosecutors have been listed for detention, although it is unclear if they have all been detained, and; 1,577 deans have been asked to resign.
Anadolu reported that Turkey’s top broadcasting authority on Tuesday revoked the licenses for 24 radio and television companies that it said are linked to Fethullah Gulen, whom Erdogan blames for masterminding the coup.
Turkey on Tuesday formally requested the extradition of Gulen from the United States, where he lives in self-imposed exile.
