As Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu and the NTV news channel report, 2,745 judges were fired across the country on Saturday.
5 members of High Judiciary Court Board were also fired across Turkey, by a decision taken by the body overseeing judges and prosecutors, after a meeting was held to discuss disciplinary measures against those suspected of having links with alleged coup plotter Fetullah Gulen, New Europe reported.
In US, Secretary of State John Kerry has already asked Turkey to hand over any evidence it has against exiled Gulen, the one that Erdogan and the Turkish government has accused of being behind the coup, as Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in the US.
Speaking in Luxembourg, Kerry says the US has not received any request to extradite the cleric.
In a statement, Mr Gulen rejected any suggestion he had links to the events, saying he condemned “in the strongest terms, the attempted military coup in Turkey.”