1,200 gendarmerie staff are latest to be targeted in Turkey’s post-coup purge led by President Erdogan

Months after Turkey’s attempted coup, the purge is continuing. On Monday, the opposition daily Cumhuriyet newspaper was targeted – the editor and senior staff detained, on accusations their coverage had helped precipitate what happened. Now the interior ministry has revealed more than 1,200 gendarmerie staff have been suspended. Ankara accuses US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating…