Coup bid marked in Turkey

Turkey has dismissed more than 7,000 police, ministry staff and academics amid celebrations to mark the one-year anniversary of an attempted coup.

The country was yesterday commemorating the anniversary of the quashed bid to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Authorities were staging a series of events honouring 250 people who were killed on 15 July last year while trying to stop the insurrection.

The coup attempt was the greatest challenge to the rule of Mr Erdogan, who has been in power since 2003, first as prime minister and later as president.