Coup Underway in Turkey

[Peter Lemkin]

There is NO way these people fired and arrested could all [or even most] have in any way been involved in the coup.....a lot of revenge housecleaning going on based on political preference or point of view. How could every head of every higher educational institution just happen to be involved in the coup plot - or even sympathetic to it?!

Along with thousands from the police and military:

The Turkish government on Tuesday escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims have ties to the alleged coup plotters, firing thousands and demanding the resignations of more.

The dismissals touched many branches of government:

• 24,000 teachers and interior ministry employees suspended
  
• 15,200 suspended from education ministry
  
• 8,777 fired from the Board of Higher Education
  
• 1,577 university deans being asked to resign
  
• 492 fired from the directorate of religious affairs
  
• 393 dismissed from the ministry of family and social policy
  
• 257 staff booted from the prime minister's office
  

Tuesday's firings come on top of the roughly 9,000 people who have been detained by the government, including security personnel, judges, prosecutors, religious figures and others.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency says courts have ordered 85 generals and admirals jailed, including top Air Force adviser, Lt. Col. Erkan Kivrak. They are awaiting trial over their roles in the coup attempt. Dozens of others were still being questioned.
Thousands of officials suspected of links to Gulen, meanwhile, were purged from the judiciary and the Interior Ministry.
In addition, thousands of academics received emails from the Higher Education Council, which governs all public and private post-secondary institutions, announcing restrictions on their travel on Monday afternoon, the CBC's Nil Köksal reported.
Professors at Istanbul Kultur University received emails with the subject line "International trips IMPORTANT!"
The emails advised the academics that, "Until further notice, for whatever reason, international trips have been stopped; it has been decided academics who are outside the country right now should return within a short time."

Erdogan seems to have set up an instant dictatorship.......[just add a 'coup' and stir]

(In fact, Erdogan had widely been called a dictator prior. He had increasingly attacked and arrested opposition press and commentators, and it has long been illegal to publicly criticize Erdogan......)