Turkey announces recruitment for police service
By Trend
Turkey has announced a recruitment of candidates for police
service, Sabah newspaper quoted the country’s Interior Minister
Suleyman Soylu as saying on September 10.
He said that 20,000 people will be selected for the police service
and 10,000 of them will serve in the police special forces.
Currently, around 276,000 policemen serve in the structures of
Turkey’s Interior Ministry.
In total, more than 7,000 policemen were dismissed in Turkey as
part of the fight against the movement of Fethullah Gulen who is
accused of being involved in the military coup attempt in the
country.
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.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had said the death toll as
a result of the military coup attempt stood at 246, excluding the
coup plotters, and more than 2,000 people were wounded. Erdogan
declared a three-month state of emergency in Turkey on July 20.
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