Arrests in Turkey surpass 13,000 as crackdown focuses on journalists, academics

Arrests in Turkey surpass 13,000 as crackdown focuses on journalists, academics

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Turkey is arresting, firing or suspending scores of journalists, school teachers and university heads as some 13,000 people have now been ensnared in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s post-coup dragnet. Authorities issued detention warrants for 42 journalists, local media say, as part of an inquiry into the failed coup on […]