"Military schools will be shut down... We will establish a national defence university." Our force commanders will report to the defence minister," Erdogan said in an interview on Saturday with A Haber, a private broadcaster. President Erdogan has several times hinted he wants to terminate the agreement," European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austria's Kurier newspaper in an interview, when asked if the pact could fall apart. Turkey will shut down its military academies and put the armed forces under the command of the defence minister, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday in a move designed to bring the military under tighter government control after a failed coup. So far, more than 60,000 people in the military, judiciary, civil service and schools have been either detained, removed or suspended over suspected links with Gulen.

Source: India Today July 31, 2016 03:33 UTC