Turkey sacks thousands of public employees

Turkey’s government has escalated its wide-ranging crackdown against people it claims are linked to plotters in Friday night’s attempted coup, sacking nearly 24,000 teachers and Interior Ministry employees across the country.

It has also demanded the resignations of 1,577 university deans.

Turkish media, said the ministry of education fired 15,200 people across the country, while the Interior Ministry fired 8,777 employees and Turkey’s board of higher education requested the deans’ resignations.