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  • Turkey sacks 10,000 more civil servants, shuts media in latest crackdown

    10/30/2016 6:59:13 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    rueters ^ | 10/30/2016 | Humeyra Pamuk
    The extent of the crackdown has worried rights groups and many of Turkey's Western allies, who fear Erdogan is using the emergency rule to eradicate dissent. The government says the actions are justified given the threat to the state posed by the coup attempt, in which more than 240 people died. The executive decrees have ordered the closure of 15 more newspapers, wires and magazines, which report from the largely Kurdish southeast, bringing the total number of media outlets and publishers closed since July to nearly 160. Universities have also been stripped of their ability to elect their own rectors...