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Minister: Turkey sacked 785 labour ministry staff following coup

September 22, 2016 at 9:03 am

For the first time ever, Turkey’s three main political parties, including the Justice and Development (AK) Party, Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) join together for a pro-democracy rally on August 8, 2016

Some 785 members of Turkey’s labour ministry have been sacked for ties to the US-based cleric who Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed coup in July, Turkey’s labour minister said yesterday.

Mehmet Muezzinoglu made the comment at a meeting with reporters in the capital, Ankara. Some 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police and judiciary have been sacked or suspended following the failed 15 July coup attempt, when a group of rogue soldiers attempted to topple the government.