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Turkey PM: 79,900 removed from public duty after coup

The Turkish prime minister says 79,900 people have been removed from public duty since the July failed coup.

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These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

  • Iran’s president tells the visiting Norwegian foreign minister that terrorism and extremism can spread to the whole world unless they’re uprooted through international cooperation.
  • In Bahrain, people continue their sit-in protest outside the home of top Shia cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim over a government decision to revoke his citizenship.
  • A former Palestinian inmate has died due to medical neglect at an Israeli jail.
  • The Turkish prime minister says 79,900 people have been removed from public duty since the July failed coup.
  • A Muslim family sues a school in the US state of New York for allegedly forcing their son to sign a false confession claiming he was a terrorist.