Turkey has announced a recruitment of candidates for police service, Sabah newspaper quoted the country’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu as saying Sept.10. He said that 20,000 people will be selected for the police service and 10,000 of them will serve in the police special forces.
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Currently, around 276,000 policemen serve in the structures of Turkey’s Interior Ministry.
In total, more than 7,000 policemen were dismissed in Turkey as part of the fight against the movement of Fethullah Gulen who is accused of being involved in the military coup attempt in the country. |