{"id":181363,"date":"2016-07-19T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/19\/speaking-of-paranoid-megalomaniacs-in-turkey\/"},"modified":"2016-07-19T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T02:22:00","slug":"speaking-of-paranoid-megalomaniacs-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/19\/speaking-of-paranoid-megalomaniacs-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Paranoid Megalomaniacs in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TURKEY: List of the massive numbers involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TurkeyPurge?src=hash\">#TurkeyPurge<\/a> following failed coup. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashishjena94\">@ashishjena94<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/elnmyynoaa\">pic.twitter.com\/elnmyynoaa<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Conflict News (@Conflicts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Conflicts\/status\/755416999451320320\">July 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been three days since the coup attempt, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/19\/turkey-demands-resignation-of-every-university-dean-in-country-a\/\">Erdogon is using it as an excuse to destroy the civil service and make it another one of his private fiefdoms<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Turkey\u2019s post-coup crackdown took a more sinister turn on Tuesday after tens of thousands of teachers were fired and all the country\u2019s university deans were told they faced suspension.  <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The licences of 21,000 staff working in private schools were revoked, more than 15,000 employees at the education ministry were sacked, and the state-run higher education council demanded the resignation of 1,577 university deans. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The purge is part of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\u2019s heavy-handed attempt to root out supporters of Fethullah G\u00fclen, the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating the failed revolt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/18\/turkey-coup-attempt-istanbul-deputy-mayor-shot-in-the-head\/\">whose movement is accused of infiltrating state institutions. <\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\"><span>T<\/span>he suspensions followed Monday\u2019s purge targeting other ministries and state institutions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The employees include 9,000 police, 2,745 judges, 8,777 from the  interior ministry 1,500 from the finance ministry, 257 staff working at  the prime minister\u2019s office, at least 100 from the National Intelligence  Agency MIT, 399 from the family and social affairs ministry and 492  from the religious affairs ministry.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">There was speculation that Mr Erdogan might try to put in place a state of emergency so as to take full control of all state institutions. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear that they had a list of people to purge long before the attempted coup was set in motion.<\/p>\n<p>This is not going to end well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TURKEY: List of the massive numbers involved in the #TurkeyPurge following failed coup. &#8211; @ashishjena94pic.twitter.com\/elnmyynoaa \u2014 Conflict News (@Conflicts) July 19, 2016 It&#8217;s been three days since the coup attempt, and Erdogon is using it as an excuse to destroy the civil service and make it another one of his private fiefdoms: Turkey\u2019s post-coup crackdown &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1099,978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-near-east","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}