...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
has sacked 2,756 more people from its public service sector for alleged links to terror groups as it presses ahead with purges launched following last year's failed military coup.
According to two government decrees published in the Official Gazette Sunday, those dismissed in the new wave of purges include 637 military personnel, 360 gendarmerie force members and 150 academics or other university personnel.
Turkey blames the July 2016 on US-based holy man Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world.... Some 50,000 people have been tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
and more than 110,000 civil servants have been dismissed for alleged links to Gulen or bad boy groups in a crackdown since then.