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July 20th, 2016 
Awake Goy The ban will be in effect till further notice, the state-run broadcaster said giving no further details.
It comes shortly after the government ordered the resignation of all university deans – namely, 1,577 people.
Also, the authorities canceled the licenses of 21,000 private-school teachers, bringing the total number of dismissed professionals to almost 60,000, according to Bloomberg estimates.
The purge comes as the government suspects the academics of links with the US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who denies claims that he was behind the recent attempted coup.
PM Binali Yildirim said the preacher led a “terrorist organization,” and pledged in a speech to parliament to “dig them up by their roots.”
Gulen, in his turn, hinted that Erdogan may have staged it himself; the Turkish president called the claim “nonsensical.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Turkey would need to provide “evidence, not allegations” against the cleric, currently living in Pennsylvania, in order to have him extradited to Turkey.
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