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100,000+ civil servants sacked in Turkey purge

By AFP
19 May 2017 | 5:15 am | 2m 3s

More than 100,000 civil servants have been sacked in Turkey, and another 47,000 people arrested - all alleged supporters of the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen - since a state of emergency was imposed in the wake of the failed coup last July.

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