Turkish military to add over 30,000 personnel in next 4 years
ANKARA -- Turkey's armed forces will recruit more than 30,000 new personnel over the next four years, a defence ministry official said on Wednesday, to help plug staff shortages after widespread purges following a failed coup.
More than 110,000 people have been sacked or suspended in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere in a security crackdown that followed the putsch in July. Some 20,000 people have been removed from the military system alone, among them 16,000 military students, the official told Reuters.
The 30,159 new personnel will be admitted into the armed forces through the naval and army military academies, while the rest will be employed as officials, sergeants and in other posts, the defence ministry official said.
