Turkey has dismissed thousands of public servants through an emergency decree for alleged links to terror groups.
The decree, published on the Official Gazette early on Sunday, sacked 18,632 civil servants, including nearly 9,000 police officers, some 6,000 members of the military and hundreds of teachers and academics.
Their passports will be cancelled.
The government blames a US-based cleric for orchestrating the coup and has sacked or arrested people suspected of links to him.
The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, denies the allegations.
But the purge has broadened to include other “terror groups”, with more than 130,000 people dismissed.
Sunday’s decree also reinstated 148 people previously sacked through emergency decrees.
