Failed coup: Turkish Education Ministry suspends 15,200 personnel, TV stations lose licence
Turkey's Education Ministry has suspended 15,200 personnel in connection with a failed military coup, private broadcaster NTV reported.
The decision follows earlier purges of thousands of people in the armed forces, police, the judiciary, the national intelligence agency, the Finance Ministry, the prime minister's office and the religious affairs directorate after an attempted coup on July 15 in which more than 200 people were killed.
TV STATIONS LOSE LICENCE
Turkey's broadcasting watchdog also cancelled the licences of all radio and television stations determined to have links with a religious movement whose followers are accused of staging a failed coup.
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTUK) said in a statement on its website it took the decision at an extraordinary meeting convened following the failed attempt to overthrow President Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey has blamed followers of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States for years, denies the charge.