Turkey on Friday dismissed more than 7,000 police, ministry staff and academics, ahead of the one-year anniversary of a failed coup attempt, the BBC reported.
The mass dismissal comes as part of a major purge of state institutions, including the judiciary, police and education, in response to last year's unrest.
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