A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Saturday, July 15, 2017
Turkey dismisses thousands more police, civil servants and academics
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey dismissed more than 7,000 police, civil
servants and academics on Friday, the eve of the anniversary of last
year's attempted coup.
The latest decree is part of a crackdown triggered by the failed coup,
which Turkey says was organised by U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah
Gulen, a former ally of President Tayyip Erdogan. Gulen denies the
allegation.
In all, Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 150,000 officials, and
arrested some 50,000 people from the military, police, judiciary,
academia and other sectors.
The latest decree dismissed 2,303 police, including some from senior
ranks, alongside 302 academics from universities across the country. The
decree also stripped 342 retired officers and soldiers of their ranks
and grades.
More than 240 people, most of them civilians, were killed last July when rogue soldiers tried to overthrow Erdogan's government.
Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Kevin Liffey