Turkey has
formally charged 99 generals and admirals in connection with the weekend's
thwarted coup attempt, just under a third of the country's 356 top military
officers.
Authorities
have banned all academics from travelling abroad, as the purge of state
employees suspected of being connected to the failed coup continues.
More than
50,000 people have been rounded up, sacked or suspended.
President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to announce further measures.
He chaired
a five-hour emergency meeting of the National Security Council and was expected
to lay out a series of emergency measures later on Wednesday.
So far
about 1,577 university deans (faculty heads) have been asked to resign in
addition to 21,000 teachers and 15,000 education ministry officials.
They are
suspected of having links to the alleged mastermind of the coup, US-based
cleric Fethullah Gulen - who denies any involvement.
Some 626
institutions have also been shut down, most of them private educational
establishments, officials say.
Meanwhile,
Turkish F-16 fighter jets launched an operation to check reports that two missing
coastguard vessels were trying to reach Greek waters, but details were few.
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