Turkey: Over 15,000 employees in education dismissed; station licences cancelled
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The Turkish minister of education announced on Tuesday the suspension to 15,200 employees believed to having ties with networks of Fethullah Gulen the Islam preacher exiled in the USA, accused by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being behind the attempted coup by which an army faction tried to remove him from power, according to EFE. The body called Higher Education Council asked 1,577 faculty deans to resign. Before the attempted coup, the Erdogan ...