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has banned all academics from leaving the country, cancelling their annual leave, as President Tayyip Erdogan's post-coup crackdown escalated to "exceptional proportions".
Teachers were told on Wednesday they could not travel abroad on any work-related trips for the foreseeable future and those currently overseas were ordered to return.
One British academic at a state-run university in Istanbul told the Telegraph that foreign nationals had also been told to come back to work.
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