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butthurt [soylentnews.org] writes:

The BBC reports [bbc.co.uk] that thousands of government employees are losing their jobs, in what it calls a "purge" after Friday's attempted coup. [soylentnews.org] The ministry of education suspended "more than 15,000"; "more than 1,500 university deans have also been ordered to resign"; thousands in the military have been arrested; thousands of judges have been suspended and thousands of police officers have been fired.

Executions have been proposed; the European Union warned that Turkey would not be allowed to join the EU if a death penalty were instituted.

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