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Turkey to remove ambassadors with suspected links to failed coup

Xinhua, July 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

Turkey will remove some ambassadors with suspected links to a failed military coup, Foreign Minster Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

In an interview with private broadcaster Haberturk TV, Cavusoglu also said that Ankara would step up efforts to have U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen extradited.

Turkey accuses Gulen of being the mastermaind behind the July 15 coup.

More than 44,000 employees of state institutions have been suspended amid a nationwide probe into the coup attempt, for suspected links to Gulen.

On July 18, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said 208 people were killed by coup attempting soldiers, including 60 police officers, three soldiers and 145 were civilians.

More than 100 coup plotters were killed, authorities said.

On July 17, Saudi authorities, at the request of Ankara, detained Turkey's military attaché to Kuwait, in a Saudi city, the Saudi-owned TV channel Al Arabiya reported. Endit