Expelled academics in Turkey who could also have been coup victims
“They are sacking the same academics who would have been sacked by the post-coup regime if it had succeeded.”
That quote is from Ruşen Çakır, a journalist who posted this message from his Twitter account on Feb. 8, right after news hit the wires about the sacking of 4,464 more employees from public jobs with a state of emergency decree. The state of emergency was issued after the foiled coup attempt of July 15, 2016, which both the government and opposition parties say was masterminded by the secret network of U.S.-based Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen.
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