Turkish authorities on Friday reinstated more than 1,800 civil servants in an emergency decree after finding they had no links to a group blamed for the 2016 failed coup. But late last year, the authorities said that the app had been unknowingly downloaded by thousands of people. A total of 1,823 civil servants will return to work, including 544 personnel from the education ministry and 204 health ministry staff. Using emergency decrees, more than 140,000 public workers have been sacked or suspended including teachers, judges, police officers and academics since July 2016. But in Friday’s decree, 262 people including 48 military personnel were sacked, state-run news agency Anadolu said, while two organisations were shut down.

Source: Punch January 12, 2018 08:26 UTC