Ankara:
More than 130 media outlets have been shut down in Turkey following this
month’s failed military coup shows no sign of abating, Reuters reported citing
official sources. That includes 45 newspapers, 16 TV channels and three news
agencies.
A
total of 1,684 members of the armed forces, including 127 generals and 32
admirals, were also being dismissed from the Turkish military as result of
their alleged connections to the Gulen movement, according to the decree, the
second to be issued under the powers of the State of Emergency. In one of the
most significant institutional changes since the coup attempt, the decree also
announced that the gendarmerie and the coast guard would in future fall
under the interior ministry and not the army.
The
list of journalists detained keeps on growing. Forty-two arrest warrants were
reportedly issued on Monday, and another 47 on Wednesday.
Those
detained include staff of Zaman newspaper, which was seized by authorities
earlier this year over its ties to exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, the archenemy
of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
But
Western leaders have voiced concern Erdogan is using the post-coup purges more
broadly to silence the opposition.
More
than 60,000 people have been suspended, detained or placed under investigation
since the failed coup.
About
1,700 hundred military personnel have been discharged – among them, almost 40
percent of all Turkish generals and admirals.
Turkish
special forces were also hunting around the Mediterranean resort of Marmaris
for a group of commandos thought to have tried to capture or kill Erdogan on
the night of July 15.
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