Turkey extends detention, shuts schools

Turkey pushed with a sweeping crackdown against 'plotters' of the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extending police powers to hold people in detention and shutting 1,043 private schools and 1,229 association and foundations

Istanbul: Turkey on Saturday pushed with a sweeping crackdown against 'plotters' of the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extending police powers to hold people in detention and shutting 1,043 private schools and 1,229 association and foundations

Under heightened police powers, suspects can now be held without charge for one month, up from four days, the official gazette announced on the third day of what Erdogan has said would be a three-month state of emergency.
1,200 soldiers freed

Meanwhile, Turkey set free 1,200 soldiers, all privates, in its first major release of suspects. There have been fears that many of the 7,400 detained soldiers were young conscripts who had no idea what was going on.

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