Turkey hires 20 thousand teachers to replace fired teachers

Turkey is planning to hire 20 thousand teachers instead of who were dismissed from schools and other educational institutions on the back drop of their being accused of participation in the failed coup.

“The new teachers will replace state educators who have been dismissed as well as teachers in private schools with alleged links to Fethullah Gulen” said the Turkish Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz in statements to ABC news.

Erdogan has closed and seized the assets of 15 universities, 934 other schools suspected of links to Gulen's movement.

Turkey has declared a three-month state of emergency to restore security following the coup attempt, granting Erdogan the power to impose decrees without parliamentary approval. 

President Erdogan stressed at the same time, that does not mean that he will impose the martial law but it is a step to make the state under strong hands in order to cleanse the public institutions of the elements of the terrorist organization of Fethullah Gulen and any other terrorist organization.