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Erdogan tightens control of Turkish armed forces
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved today to establish further control over the armed forces after a failed military coup. He has fired 1,400 soldiers, sailors and airmen for suspected links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Dion Nissenbaum of the Wall Street Journal joins Hari Sreenivasan from Istanbul.