Turkey's post-coup crackdown took a more sinister turn today (July 19, 2016) after tens of thousands of teachers were fired and all the country's university deans were told they faced suspension, the Telegraph (British) website reports.
The licenses of 21,000 staff working in private schools were revoked and more than 15,000 employees at the education ministry were sacked, and the state-run higher education council demanded the resignation of 1,577 university deans.
The purge is part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's heavy-handed attempt to root out supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating the failed revolt, whose movement is accused of infiltrating state institutions.
Ankara claims Gulen -- who wields enormous influence in Turkey through loyalists in various apparatus as well as a private school network -- hatched the plot to end Erdogan's 13 years in power from his home in Pennsylvania.
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