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Ex Lurker

(3,816 posts) Tue Jul 19, 2016, 06:40 PM Jul 2016

Ergodan purge spreads to education

http://www.euronews.com/2016/07/19/turkey-cancels-licenses-of-21000-private-teachers-removes-15000-state-teachers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&utm_term=Autofeed#link_time=1468943789

21000 teachers, over 1500 university deans get the axe.

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Ergodan purge spreads to education (Original Post) Ex Lurker Jul 2016 OP

Not surprising Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #1

Now Turkey turns away from the rest of the world.. virginia mountainman Jul 2016 #2

Not a fan of violent revolution LiberalLovinLug Jul 2016 #3

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

1. Not surprising

Reply to Ex Lurker (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 06:47 PM

Jul 2016

He does not want a secular state. In with the clerics

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)

2. Now Turkey turns away from the rest of the world..

Reply to Ex Lurker (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 06:50 PM

Jul 2016

To descend into a religious hell..

LiberalLovinLug

(14,176 posts)

3. Not a fan of violent revolution

Reply to Ex Lurker (Original post)

Tue Jul 19, 2016, 07:21 PM

Jul 2016

But I sure wish this would have worked.
Sounds like the coup participants were trying to curb the slide into an Islamic dictatorship, and away from Western liberalism. That kind of popular uprising failed in Egypt, and in Iran as well. Sad. Now Ergodan has the excuse to clamp down all the way.

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