Turkey purges hundreds of civil servants in latest decrees
Turkey dismissed hundreds civil servants and boosted President Tayyip Erdogan's powers over the MIT national intelligence agency in two decrees published on Friday, the latest under emergency rule imposed after last year's attempted coup.
Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 150,000 officials in purges since the failed putsch, while sending to jail pending trial some 50,000 people including soldiers, police, civil servants.
The crackdown has targeted people whom authorities say they suspect of links to the network of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for the coup.
Under the latest decrees, published in the government's Official Gazette, more than 900 civil servants from ministries, public institutions and the military were dismissed. Those sacked included more than 100 academic personnel.
