Turkey: Erdogan widens crackdown on academia and media

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s purge of suspected dissidents from Turkish society continues apace, and has now been expanded to include teachers, university deans, civil servants and media. Erdogan’s government have blamed supporters of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen for organizing the failed coup last Friday night. Gulen is in self-imposed exile, and leads a movement that…