This is a list of educational institutions that were shut down in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges.
On 23 July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 1,043 private schools, 1,229 charities and foundations, 19 trade unions, 15 universities and 35 medical institutions in his first emergency decree under the newly adopted emergency legislation. [1]
The following fifteen private universities, many of them allegedly affiliated to the Gülen movement, were shut down:
According to re-organization of the Armed Forces, all military academies are closed: [2]
35 health services/hospitals shut down on 23 July 2016. [3]
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The following are lists of populated places in Turkey by province:
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