Turkey said on Sunday that 2,756 people were dismissed from their jobs in public institutions including soldiers, teachers and ministry personnel over links to terror organisations.
According to two government decrees published in the Official Gazette Sunday, those dismissed in the new wave of purges include 637 military personnel, 360 gendarmerie force members and 150 academics or other university personnel. At least 115 people who were previously dismissed were reinstated to public sector jobs.
All those dismissed were either members of "terror organisations" or had links to structures which were acting against national security, it said.
In a separate emergency decree, the country's defence procurement agency was ordered to answer to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan instead of the defence ministry, in a move widely viewed as a further expansion of his powers.
Turkey's intelligence service (MİT) also came under Erdoğan's control in August.
The decree published in Official Gazette also ordered 17 institutions to be shut down across Turkey including two newspapers and seven associations.
After the July 15, 2016, coup bid, the government introduced a state of emergency, which has since been renewed five times, the latest in October.
