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Why US-educated Turkish officers could soon be out of their jobs

Turkey's purges since the failed coup are now targeting armed forces officers with advanced degrees from the United States, threatening to devastate the military's brain trust.
Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim (2-R) and Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces, Hulusi Akar (L) are seen during Turkish Supreme Military Council (YAS) members' visit at Anitkabir, mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, on July 28, 2016. / AFP / ADEM ALTAN        (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Perhaps a good education doesn't always pay off after all.

Three months after the July 15 failed coup, dismissals of military personnel and a flood of investigations about the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) continue. And on Oct. 12, in the fifth wave of purges, 201 ranking officers from the Turkish air force and 32 from the navy were discharged.

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