• Participants stand in front of the municipality headquarters in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on Sunday during a pro-Kurdish demonstration. A Turkish court has barred Figen Yuksekdag, a leader of the main pro-Kurdish party, from leaving the country, accusing her of 'belonging to an armed terrorist organisation,' the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI
    Participants stand in front of the municipality headquarters in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on Sunday during a pro-Kurdish demonstration. A Turkish court has barred Figen Yuksekdag, a leader of the main pro-Kurdish party, from leaving the country, accusing her of "belonging to an armed terrorist organisation," the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday. | AFP-JIJI

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ISTANBUL – Turkey said it has dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.

More than 100,000 people had already been sacked or suspended and 37,000 arrested since the abortive putsch in an unprecedented crackdown President Tayyip Recep Erdogan says is crucial for wiping out the network of Gulen from the state apparatus.

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