Is Turkey wiping out Kurdish institutions during lengthy state of emergency?
Turkey is continuing is massive purge of suspects — many of them Kurds — in the July 15 coup attempt, dismissing thousands more civil servants in the past week.
![TURKEY-SECURITY/KURDS Police detain Sebahat Tuncel, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), during a protest against the arrest of Kurdish lawmakers, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, November 4, 2016. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX2RWQI](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2017/01/RTX2RWQI.jpg/RTX2RWQI.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=ddcjk8cC)
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — On Jan. 7, the Turkish government issued three more state of emergency decrees, dismissed thousands more civil servants and closed 83 more nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
Since the July 15 failed coup, about 1,500 NGOs have been closed.