Turkey to shut hundreds of schools in anti-coup measure

Turkey has said that it will close more than 600 private schools and dormitories following an attempted coup.

The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it has fired nearly 22,000 education ministry workers, mostly teachers, taken steps to revoke the licences of 21,000 other teachers at private schools and sacked or detained half a dozen university presidents in a campaign to root out alleged supporters of a US-based Muslim cleric blamed for the botched insurrection on Friday.