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The impending dismissal of another 3,000 Turkish soldiers suspected of disloyalty is raising concerns about military readiness.

Turkish military purges decimate career officer, pilot ranks

Metin Gurcan

Turkish army officers stand at attention during a Republic Day ceremony at Anitkabir, the mausoleum of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk, to mark the republic's anniversary in Ankara, Turkey, October 29, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - S1BEUJSRMSAA

More military expulsions appear imminent in Turkey

Metin Gurcan

A woman hugs a tree in silence during a protest at Kugulu park in central Ankara June 18, 2013. Overnight in Ankara, riot police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who had gathered in and around the government quarter of Kizilay. But in stark contrast to the recent fierce clashes in several cities, dozens of protesters merely stood in silence in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, inspired by a man who lit up social media by doing just that for eight hours in Istanbul's Taksim Square

Erdogan Tells Student Protesters To 'Go and Live in Forest'

Tulin Daloglu

Turkish pay phones

Turkey broadens pay phone probes to nab Gulenist soldiers

Metin Gurcan