Turkey dismisses more than 10,000 civil servants

Turkey has sacked 10,000 civil servants because of their possible links with the controversial cleric Fethullah Gulen.

The Turkish government says that Gülen was behind the failed coup in July. The government has arrested more than 37 000 people after the coup attempt and more than 100 000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, military, police, teachers and others dismissed or suspended. According to authorities, the purges are necessary to remove all the followers of Gülen from the state apparatus and important functions.