A total of 34,000 teachers have been dismissed along with 5,882 academics and 1,372 administrative personnel from universities in Turkey as part of a post-coup crackdown conducted by the government, a recent report said.
The Human Rights Association’s (IHD) Istanbul branch released a report on rights violations in the education sector during a press conference on Thursday.
The number of dismissed teachers has reached 34,000, that of academics 5,882 and university personnel 1,372, the report said.
Meanwhile, the number of teachers who committed suicide after losing their jobs now totals 50, IHD officials said.
Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 that killed 249 people and wounded more than a thousand others. The government declared a state of emergency days after the putsch and have issued dozens of emergency decrees to purge its critics from state institutions.
Those dismissed were accused of having links to the Gülen movement, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or other alleged terrorist groups.
(Turkey Purge)
