Posted on 08/14/2016 5:52:01 AM PDT by fluorescence
Some 5,000 state employees have been sacked and 77,000 suspended in the purge since last month's failed coup in Turkey, the prime minister says.
Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara that more than 3,000 of those sacked were members of the military.
They are suspected of links to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, he said.
Announcing a visit to Turkey by US Vice-President Joe Biden, he again urged the US to extradite Mr Gulen.
The cleric, a former ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, from where he runs a worldwide network of charities and schools.
He denies any knowledge of or involvement in Turkey's first coup attempt since 1997, which left 270 people dead.
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When does Erdogan start wearing a blue turban, and the bear and the eagle unite to stop the caliphate. Nostradamous indeed.
Suspended?
Like ... from meat hooks?
Was the “Coup” a false flag event set up to give Erdogan justification for his elimination of critics and opposition?
If not, it sure worked out that way for him.
All this evil man' s true Political enemies refused to get involved like the Kurds. They knew it was a phony set up .
The left wing nutters at the BBC know this but spit out this same anti western propaganda to help the cause . Anyone else Recall when CNN reporters were thrown out of Egypt after getting caught Conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood radicals !
If Obama sends Fethullah Gulen back to Turkey he’ll have a lot more Blood on his hands
Let Turkey be Turkey. I don’t care what they do.
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