ISTANBUL // Turkey's High Board of Education has banned all academics from travelling abroad until further notice, state-run broadcaster TRT reported on Wednesday, after a failed military coup prompted a wide-ranging purge of state institutions.
The report, which provided no details about the ban, came a day after the board ordered the resignation of 1,577 deans at all universities across Turkey. In a separate move on Tuesday the education ministry also revoked the licences of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions.
Turkey had also blocked access to the WikiLeaks website, its telecoms watchdog said on Wednesday, hours after it leaked nearly 300,000 emails from the AKP dating from 2010 to July 6 this year.
Obtained before the attempted coup, the date of their publication was brought forward "in response to the government's post-coup purges", WikiLeaks said on its website.
The source of the emails was not connected to the coup plotters or to a rival political party or state, WikiLeaks said.
Turkey's Telecommunications Communications Board said on Wednesday that an "administrative measure" had been taken against the website — the term it commonly uses when blocking access to sites.
Turkey routinely uses internet shutdowns in response to political events, which critics and human rights advocates see as part of a broader attack on the media and freedom of expression.
* Reuters
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