More judges hunted in widening crackdown

  16 July 2016    Read: 1241
More judges hunted in widening crackdown
Turkish authorities have arrested 10 members of the Council of State, the country`s top administrative court, and are searching for 140 members of the court of cessation in a probe related to a failed overnight coup, broadcaster NTV reported.
Earlier, the Anadolu agency said that 2,745 judges had been dismissed.

Turkey`s government has said members of a "parallel structure" in the military were behind the coup - referring to followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

President Tayyip Erdogan has long accused former ally Gulen, of building a parallel structure in the judiciary, military, education and media aimed at eventually toppling the state.

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