ANKARA: A Turkish academic and a teacher said on Friday they were ending their 10-month hunger strike against their dismissal under Ankara?s crackdown following a failed coup bid in 2016.
Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca were sacked during the purges that have seen tens of thousands of public sector workers lose their jobs in the aftermath of the failed overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in July 2016.
The decision to end their protest came as they vowed to try and get their jobs back via the courts after an appeals commission "rejected our applications to return to our jobs", Gulmen said.The commission was set up to hear challenges to dismissals that have taken place since the government implemented a state of emergency in response to the coup attempt. "From today, we are ending our hunger strike on the 324th day but our resistance will continue... We will continue our fight for our jobs," Gulmen, 35, vowed in a video shared by supporters on social media in which the pair appeared frail.
01-27-2018, 11:10 AM
Two teachers sacked in Turkey purge end hunger strike
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