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Turkey to sack 3,000 more over Gulen link

By AFP
April 19, 2018

ANKARA: Turkish authorities will soon dismiss nearly 3,000 military personnel over links to the movement Ankara blames for the 2016 failed coup, a government minister said on Wednesday. Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said officials “discovered a nearly three-thousand strong structure” in the armed forces, state news agency Anadolu reported.