Erdogan Renews Putsch Purge With Targets in Media, Academia
- Turkey detains editor-in-chief of opposition paper Cumhuriyet
- More than 110,000 state employees have been fired or detained
Opposition member of parliament Sezgin Tanrikulu gestures as politicians hold copies of Cumhuriyet newspaper in front of the newspaper's headquarters
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed efforts to root out opposition to his rule since July’s failed coup, with officials arresting the top editor of a major paper and firing more than 1,200 professors.
Police detained Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 12 other executives, writers and cartoonists at the daily on suspicion of assisting both Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Erdogan accuses of masterminding the attempted overthrow, and the outlawed Kurdish rebel group PKK.