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    15,000 Education Staffers Suspended in Turkey's Post-coup Wake

    Turkey is still coping with this weekend's attempted coup and, today, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suspended more than 15,000 educators, creating a sense of panic about what might happen next. Kim Deen, a reporter based in Istanbul for the Middle East Eye , has the latest.

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    By Warren Olney • Jul 19, 2016 • 6m Listen

    Turkey is still coping with this weekend's attempted coup and, today, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s suspended more than 15,000 educators, creating a sense of panic about what might happen next. Kim Deen, a reporter based in Istanbul for the Middle East Eye, has the latest.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Paul von Zielbauer

      Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Kim Deen

      Middle East Eye

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    The full episode

    1 of 3
    RNC Day 2: The Trump UN-Convention
    1. 1:5215,000 Education Staffers Suspended in Turkey's Post-coup WakeYou’re reading this
    2. 8:26Can the Trump Family Reality Show Unify the Republicans?
    3. 42:57Trump Ghostwriter Regrets All
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