Baku, Azerbaijan, July 25
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
Over 5,000 employees of Turkey’s Health Ministry were dismissed during the investigation into the coup attempt in the country, the Anadolu Agency reported July 25 citing the country’s Health Minister Recep Akdag.
“Intensive work of the commission with my participation has been underway in the ministry over the last five days,” said Akdag.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency in the country on July 20.
On July 15 evening, Turkish authorities said a military coup attempt took place in the country. Meanwhile, a group of servicemen announced about transition of power to them.
However, the rebelling servicemen started to surrender July 16 and Turkish authorities said the coup attempt failed.
Erdogan said that the death toll as a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246 people excluding the coup plotters and over 2,000 people were wounded.
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