Turkey Dismisses Employees

Turkish authorities ordered the dismissal of more than 18,500 state employees including police officers, soldiers and academics, in a decree published on Sunday. The Official Gazette said 18,632 people had been sacked including 8,998 police officers in the emergency decree over suspected links to terror organisations and groups that "act against na...

Turkey has dismissed 88 employees of the foreign ministry, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on today, the latest in a series of purges of suspected supporters of a US based Muslim cleric accused of organising a failed military coup.

Turkish authorities ordered the dismissal of more than 18,500 state employees including police officers, soldiers and academics, in a decree published on Sunday. The Official Gazette said 18,632 people had been sacked including 8,998 police officers in the emergency decree over suspected links to terror organisations and groups that "act against na...

Turkey has dismissed 88 employees of the foreign ministry, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on today, the latest in a series of purges of suspected supporters of a US based Muslim cleric accused of organising a failed military coup.