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Turkey removes 8,000 security personnel

About 8,000 security personnel have been removed from duty in Turkey in the latest round of purges since July's failed coup.

Turkish authorities have removed about 8,000 security personnel from duty, the government's official gazette said on Friday, in the latest purge of people suspected of having links to those behind a failed coup in July.

Of the personnel removed, it said 7,669 were police and 323 were members of the gendarmerie.

The gazette also said that retired judges and prosecutors would be allowed to return to work if they applied to do so in the next two months, after about 3,300 judiciary officials were dismissed since the July 15 putsch.


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