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09-20-2016, 05:12 AM
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have dismissed nearly 28,000 teachers and suspended almost 9,500 others over alleged links to terrorism, a deputy prime minister said on Monday, pursuing a security *****down followed a failed coup in July.
Turkey has sacked or suspended some 100,000 civil servants including judges, prosecutors, police ******rs and teachers since a group of rogue soldiers tried to topple the government.
At least 40,000 people have been detained for suspected links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the plot.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed US exile since 1999, has denied the accusations and condemned the coup.
The scope of the *****down has raised concern from human rights groups and Turkey´s Western allies, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the abortive coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
Teachers in the largely Kurdish southeast of Turkey have been targeted in recent weeks, with authorities citing their alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said nearly 28,000 teachers had been expelled from the profession. Investigations of almost 9,500 suspended teachers were continuing, he said.
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Turkey has sacked or suspended some 100,000 civil servants including judges, prosecutors, police ******rs and teachers since a group of rogue soldiers tried to topple the government.
At least 40,000 people have been detained for suspected links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the plot.
Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed US exile since 1999, has denied the accusations and condemned the coup.
The scope of the *****down has raised concern from human rights groups and Turkey´s Western allies, who fear President Tayyip Erdogan is using the abortive coup as a pretext to curtail dissent.
Teachers in the largely Kurdish southeast of Turkey have been targeted in recent weeks, with authorities citing their alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said nearly 28,000 teachers had been expelled from the profession. Investigations of almost 9,500 suspended teachers were continuing, he said.
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