Turkey widens crackdown on military and judiciary
Some 6,000 soldiers, judges and prosecutors detained; more arrests to come, says justice minister
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TURKEY widened a crackdown on suspected supporters of a failed military coup on Sunday, taking the number of people rounded up in the armed forces and judiciary to 6,000, and the government said that it was in full control of the country and economy.
Overnight, supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan rallied in public squares, at Istanbul airport and outside his palace in a show of defiance after the coup attempt killed at least 265 people.
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