A year after failed coup, crackdown shakes pillar of Turkish state

FILE PHOTO: Policemen stand atop military armored vehicles after troops involved in the failed coup surrendered on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, July 16, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Late one night in early February, Ibrahim Kaboglu learned that he had been targeted in the sweeping crackdown that followed Turkey's failed coup a year ago.

"Sir, you are in the decree," a colleague told the 67-year-old constitutional law professor by phone, referring to a list of 4,000 employees suspended from their jobs in a single swoop.