Turkey's treatment of dismissed officials reminiscent of Nazis: Luxembourg

[WorldNews]

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Luxembourg's foreign minister said on Monday that the Turkish government's handling of civil servants dismissed after a failed coup attempt reminded him of methods used by the Nazis, and that sooner or later the EU would have to respond with sanctions. More than 110,000 public servants - from soldiers and judges to teachers, politicians and journalists - have been detained, suspended or sacked since the failed military coup in July, in what President Tayyip Erdogan's critics say has turned into a crackdown on all forms of dissent. The names of those barred from public service are published in the official government gazette, potentially making it hard for them to find work elsewhere.

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