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Now playing Next Turkey Turkey Purge: Thousands of suspects rounded-up A clean-up after the coup, in more senses than one. 18/07/2016
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Now playing Next Turkey Purges of Turkey's military and judiciary continue Turkey’s authorities have rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, including top commanders and foot soldiers, and ordered thousands of judges detained after forces loyal to Erdogan crushe 17/07/2016
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