Late one night in early February, Ibrahim Kaboglu learned that he had been targeted in the sweeping crackdown that followed Turkey's failed coup a year ago.
"Sir, you are in the decree," a colleague told the 67-year-old constitutional law professor by phone, referring to a list of 4,000 employees suspended from their jobs in a single swoop.
Five months later, as the Turkish government prepares to commemorate thwarting the attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kaboglu is still barred from his job at Marmara University and a year-long purge continues — hitting the judiciary particularly hard.
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