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Turkey’s Defense Ministry said 20,612 people had been expelled from the Turkish military since a failed putsch on July 15, 2016.
The Ministry noted that the judicial and administrative process for 3,560 personnel was continuing.
Turkey began a series of purges by a state of emergency in reaction to the 15 July failed coup d'état.
The purges began with the arrest of Turkish Armed Forces personnel reportedly linked to the coup attempt but arrests were expanded to include other elements of the Turkish military, as well as civil servants and private citizens.
Turkish government blamed cleric Fethullah Gulen and his spiritual movement of carrying out the coup attempt, which left 240 dead excluding 24 coup-plotters. (ILKHA)
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Turkish Coast Guard teams rescued 29 irregular migrants, including 13 children, from a distressed boat in international waters off the coast of Fethiye on Saturday, officials announced.
The Orphans Foundation (Yetimler Vakfı) has provided winter clothing and shoes to dozens of orphaned children in the southern Turkish province of Kahramanmaraş, as part of its seasonal humanitarian assistance efforts.
A powerful cold front has swept across the country, unleashing heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures that have paralyzed daily life, particularly in eastern and northern provinces.
Türkiye has expressed deep concern following an attack on Ukraine’s Chornomorsk Port on Friday, where a foreign-flagged vessel owned by a Turkish company sustained damage.
