AP: ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish authorities on Tuesday suspended some 12,800 police officers from duty over their suspected links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen as Turkey pressed ahead with its vast crackdown on a network it says is behind the country’s July 15 failed military coup.
In a brief statement posted on its website, the Turkish police headquarters said those suspended were allegedly “in cohesion with or connected to” Gulen’s movement. It said 2,523 of them were police chiefs.
The move comes a day after the Cabinet extended by a further three months a state of emergency declared after the coup, which has facilitated the government’s crackdown on Gulen’s movement.
Tens of thousands of people have been dismissed or suspended from government jobs including in the military, police, judiciary and the education ministry. Around 32,000 people allegedly connected to the failed takeover attempt have been arrested, including dozens of journalists employed by Gulen-linked news outlets. more
well that one way to cut your hooked nose off to spite your butt ugly face.
congrates erdogaSS
How to reduce the budget…
Chalk this up as another flaming obama/clinton foreign policy triumph?!!
This crap is coming here if PIAPS gets elected.