Pro-government demonstrators hold a giant Turkish flag during a march over the Bosphorus Bridge from the Asian to the European side of Istanbul, Turkey, July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey on Tuesday dismissed close to 15,000 more civil servants, military officials, police and others and shut down 375 institutions and news outlets in investigations over a failed coup in July, authorities said in two official decrees.
More than 110,000 people have been sacked or suspended in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere, while 36,000 people have been jailed pending trial as part of the investigation into the failed putsch.
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