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Thousands have attended funerals for a number of those killed during the coup attempt
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Turkey has arrested 6,000 people
after a failed coup, with President Erdogan vowing to purge state bodies
of the "virus" that caused the revolt.
Mr Erdogan's top military aide Col Ali Yazici is among those now in custody. The
number of those killed in the weekend violence had risen to 290, the
foreign ministry said. More than 100 of them had been involved in the
coup.
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Thousands of soldiers have been rounded up and judges arrested in the aftermath of the failed coup
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Security forces are reported to have met resistance from some coup-plotters who were being arrested. Warning
shots were fired at Istanbul's second largest airport, and also at a
military base in central Konya province, unnamed officials said.
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Turkey has been through a dramatic couple of days
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"We
will continue to cleanse the virus from all state institutions, because
this virus has spread. Unfortunately like a cancer, this virus has
enveloped the state," Recep Tayyip Erdogan told mourners at at a funeral
in Istanbul for victims of the coup.
The president repeated an
accusation that US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen was behind the
plot. Mr Gulen strongly denies any involvement.
