Over 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended following the country ’s failed coup d’etat , with more than 1,500 university clerics forced to resign and their private teaching licences revoked . " Turkey is undergoing a purge of anyone with any links to Fethullah Gulen , a US - based cleric accused by President Mohammad Tayyip , of being behind last week ’s military coup .
Over 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended following the country ’s failed coup d’etat , with more than 1,500 university clerics forced to resign and their private teaching licences revoked . Turkey is undergoing a purge of anyone with any links to Fethullah Gulen , a US - based cleric accused by President Mohammad Tayyip , of being behind last week ’s military coup .