Erdogan’s post coup attempt purge hits 50,000

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Erdoğan’s post coup attempt purge hits 50,000



ANKARA: -- The evisceration of elements of Turkish society continues unabated following last Friday’s failed coup attempt.

The numbers of those either detained, suspended from their jobs or sacked has reached 50,000.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is turning the screws: “At every level of government, the period of cleansing this virus will continue. Because this body, my brothers, is infected with a cancer that spreads all around the government.”

The cure began with a purge of those believed to be directly involved, the military.

Soldiers, many of them teenage conscripts, were rounded up, beaten, stripped and according to reports, lynched.

The numbers are staggering with over 6,000 soldiers in custody.

More than are 9,000 individuals are involved in legal proceedings, close to a thousand civilians arrested and 85 top ranking officers from the army and navy jailed.

Thousands of teachers have had their licenses revoked and mass suspensions of civil servants across the education sector imposed.

The judiciary has been at the sharp end of Erdoğan’s justice 2,745 judges have been suspended accused of being part of the ‘parallel structure’ of the opposition Hizmet movement of Fethullah Gulen.

Centres of learning are under attack 1,577 university deans have been ordered to tender their resignations and academics banned from leaving the country and those abroad ordered to return.

Suspensions cut across the family and social affairs ministry, the finance ministry, the prime ministers office, the intelligence services and religious affairs.

Two top level presidential aides have also been suspended.

The media has long been a target of Erdoğan’s AKP party last March the influential newspaper Zaman was raided.

Following the coup attempt 24 TV and radio stations accused of links to Gulen have been stripped of their licenses.

The crackdown is aimed at Fethullah Gulen a former ally and friend of Erdoğan.

Gulen supported the rise of the AKP against secularist rivals.

Once the AKP had defeated the old order, around 2010, cracks began to appear in the relationship between the AKP and the Gulen movement.

Gulen is simply public enemy n°1 and Erdoğan wants him extradited from the United States and the Turkish president has addressed the matter with President Obama in a phone call on Tuesday.

Erdoğan’s remarks that the death penalty could be reinstated has shocked Europe and moves to do so will finally end Turkey’s bid to join the bloc.

In the meantime Erdoğan will continue to administer his treatment.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-07-21

[daoyai]

wow 50k conspiritors, I wonder how they were able to keep the plot a secret. Or is it something else? possibly their secular leaning?

[Andaman Al]

Wow! Just WOW! I don't think this situation needs the reinstatement of the death penalty to end Turkey's bid for EU membership, it seems Erdogan has done more than enough already. He may have staged the coup to do this but he will end up with a revolution if he continues. This could finally see completely uncontrolled migration to Europe. I think Turkey is well off the list of holiday spots right now.

[johnnywishbone]

Turkey will mirror Iran.

I've been to some crummy places.

Middle East was shittiest.

By far.

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[northernphil]

I thought for a moment I was reading about Pol Pot.

[Lokie]

This guys purge will be on biblical proportions, he will now put through measures which ensure he becomes invincible - and this is democracy? Think the Turkish people have been blindsided

[Scott]

Off-topic post removed.

[Gene1960]

A friend in need: Pitin helps Ergogan and warns him? I heard it first on Polish TV yesterday.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f8f_1469041294

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[tifino]

10 green bottles, sitting on the wall...

[arjunadawn]

It's amazing how the international community condones if not enables this despot's rise. In the span of some years we have watched this man utterly disembowel a secular nation and set up shop for his oft avowed Islamic state. In fact, Erdogan's rise is because of his hitching his rising star to other leaders/elements that also work toward the same goal- an Islamic state- caliphate.

[Kiwiken]

Here is a Man who talks about the rule of Law. All Our Countries have the rule that even if a Law and Penalty is changed after you commit an offence. Then you are tried and sentenced in accordance with the Law as it applied at the time you offended. This Despot and his Horde of Chanting Minions talks of reimposing the Death Penalty for the recent Coup. 60,000 plus now I believe arrested or dismissed this is shaping to be more of a Pogrom of the Secular State in Order to set up his Islamic Caliphate.

[tifino]

Is this how an anti-Jade Helm mutiny will end up?

[johnnywishbone]

Obama Clinton Kerry.

All support Erdogan.

Disappointment is their forte.

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[MaxYakov]

The Turkish Government - Post-coup: