Coup Underway in Turkey

[Peter Lemkin]

I heard a report on NPR that as many as 60,000 government workers had been fired from their jobs.

Quite possible Drew. I was listening to some one on the radio this morning. They were from the ruling party (APK?) and she was asked about all the sackings from the education institutions. She was saying that Turkey is very large country and while it sounds a lot is in not very many actually and when looked at as a percentage of all teachers and lecturers is only 2 or 3% of the profession and these sacking are mostly from the Gulen schools and institutions of which they run many. Gulen have many of them in the US too. I knew that from other research into Gulen and it is on here some where.

It is not just the Gulen related schools nor teachers at all [very few of which are higher education level]! EVERY head of EVERY higher learning institution in Turkey was forced to resign, and few of them are Gulen related...only a handful are. Yes, the figure is way over 60K fired - now from all sectors of the bureaucracy and society, and growing. Education was one of the areas Erdogan wants to control. [a technique used in all authoritarian societies]

Estimates of the number of Gulen-related schools and educational institutions vary widely, from about 300 schools in Turkey to over 1,000 schools worldwide.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP]