More than 10,500 civil servants dismissed for PKK links

Turkey has laid off more than 10,500 civil servants because of alleged links with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK.

Turkey considers the PKK as a terrorist organization. Earlier, hundreds of teachers were sacked for their alleged links with the PKK and were pro-Kurdish politicians arrested.

Since a failed coup in July Turkey more than 125. 000 officers suspended or fired. Of the 10 500 that Muezzinoglu above are included or that there is a new treatment is unclear.