© AP Photo/ Selahattin Sevi, FileCIA-backed terrorist trainer and recruiter Fethullah Gulen
Continuing our coverage of the coup in Turkey (see
here for the previous updates, and
here for my previous Focus), news from the past two days has not slowed down. It's coming fast and hard. Erdogan has just announced a
3-month state of emergency.
In FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds's
recent commentary, she made the comment that detaining or firing a few thousand individuals would do little to counter the scope of the Gulenist fifth column in Turkey. Well, since those initial numbers, Turkish authorities have fired thousands more public officials and employees.
Breaking it down in numbers so far, the
following have been suspended from their previous positions (
close to 60,000 people in total): 21,000 private teachers (including 1,577 university deans, public and private - 626 institutions have been closed), 15,000 Education Ministry personnel (latest report adds an additional
6,500 staff members), 399 Ministry of Family and Social Policies employees,
257 employees in the office of the prime minister, 8,000 police officers, 3,500 soldiers, 3,000 judges and prosecutors (
all of whom are under investigation) including
2 constitutional judges and 262 military judges/prosecutors, 492 clerics, 130 MIT spies, 120 generals and admirals (that's just under 30% of all generals), and the commander of the Turkish Gendarmerie
Gen. Galip Mendi.
More than
9,300 people are currently under investigation for involvement in the coup. In addition to all government officials, all university professors have been
banned from traveling abroad. Turkey's main religious body has
banned all religious funeral services for military troops killed during the attempted coup; it only applies to those who actively took part, not those who participated "unwittingly or under duress".