Turkey to shut military academies as it targets armed forces for 'cleansing'

Western allies rattled by scale of crackdown on more than 60,000 people after failed coup in Turkey Turkey will shut its military academies and put the armed forces under the command of the defence minister, Fikri Isik, president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday in a move designed to bring the military under tighter government control after a failed coup. Isik told broadcaster NTV the shake-up in the military was not yet over, adding that military academies would now be a target of "cleansi...