Emergency Meetings Held as Turkey Reels from Coup Attempt

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with his national security council Wednesday morning in the wake of last week's attempted coup, amid a massive purge of suspected coup plotters. He will meet with his Cabinet ministers at the conclusion of the security meeting, after which an important announcement is expected. Earlier Wednesday, Turkey's higher education council announced a ban on academics traveling abroad and urged all of those currently abroad to return...

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