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Turkey sacks thousands through emergency decree as Erdogan cements power

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Turkey sacks thousands through emergency decree as Erdogan cements power

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7/8/18
ISTANBUL — Turkey's government on Sunday issued an emergency decree dismissing thousands of public servants for alleged links to terror groups. The decree, published in the Official Gazette, sacked 18,632 civil servants, including nearly 9,000 police officers, some 6,000 members of the military and hundreds of teachers and academics. Their passports will be cancelled. Turkey has been under a state of emergency for nearly two years, declared after a failed coup attempt in July 2016. the purge has broadened to include other "terror groups," with more than 130,000 people dismissed. The decree is expected to be the last of a series of emergency laws as Turkey's ruling system will fully transform into an executive presidency Monday, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is sworn in once again. Sunday's decree also struck at the ranks of some 1,500 retired military and police officers depriving them of their pensions and passports. More than 75,000 people have been arrested for alleged terror links.
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Erdogan is now legally a dictator. More journalists are imprisoned in Turkey, a NATO country, than in any other nation on earth.

Think about that. Also think about the US storing nuclear weapons at the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
 
IMO the US has become as bad as the nations it has claimed throughout history to be against; we support authoritarian regimes & dictators but then we expect respect? :lamo

the US has become a ****hole country ........
 
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