The Turkish Ministry of the Interior announced today that it has dismissed more than 1.200 military personnel from the gendarmerie as part of the investigation into the failed coup d'état in July.
The announcement states that 419 officers, 604 non-commissioned officers and 195 other soldiers were dismissed today.
Ankara accuses the movement of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the US, of organizing the coup in which 270 people died. Gulen denies involvement.
Turkish authorities have since arrested nearly 37.000 people and fired or suspended more than 100.000 civil servants.
The state-run Anadolu Agency, meanwhile, reported that police arrested several employees of Marmara University today for using an encrypted application allegedly used by the Gulen movement.
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