Erdogan fired more than 18,000 public servants – Essential

More than 18,000 people were fired in Turkey on the basis of a decree published Sunday in the Official Journal. Among the dismissed there are many members of the police force and teachers, according to Agerpres quoted by the press agencies

The decree contains the names of 18,632 people, including more than 9,000 policemen and 6,000 members of the armed forces, about 1,000 employees of the Ministry of Justice and 650 of the Ministry of Education.

According to media reports, it is the latest decree of this kind before a likely lifting of the state of emergency on Monday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reelected on June 24 for a new term, promised in the campaign that he would raise the state of emergency after the July failed coup d'etat 2016.

The presidential system targeted by the constitutional treaty reform adopted in the referendum of April 2017.

The decree of Sunday also refers to 12 associations, three newspapers and a television channel that will be closed, but it also announces the reinstatement in public functions of 148 people dismissed by previous decrees.

According to the Human Rights Platform, 112,679 people were fired in Turkey until March 20, 2018, of which more than 8,000 were armed, 33,000 from the Ministry of Labor, Education and 31,000 from the Interior Ministry and some other thousands have been suspended as a result of an attempted coup d'etat.