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Turkish government destroys more than 300,000 books<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Regime says it is cracking down on anything linked to Fethullah G\u00fclen, the Muslim cleric it blames for 2016\u2019s attempted coup<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 300,000 books have been removed from Turkish schools and libraries and destroyed since the attempted coup of 2016, according to Turkey\u2019s ministry of education.<\/p>\n

Turkey\u2019s education minister Ziya Sel\u00e7uk announced last week that 301,878 books had been destroyed as the government cracks down on anything linked to Fethullah G\u00fclen, the US-based Muslim cleric who is accused by Turkey<\/a> of instigating 2016\u2019s failed military coup. G\u00fclen has denied involvement.<\/p>\n

The figure was first reported by the popular newspaper H\u00fcrriyet<\/a>, with images of books being seized and burned published by online news outlet Kronos27<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the website Turkey Purge<\/a>, which describes itself as \u201ca small group of young journalists who are trying to be the voice for Turkish people who suffer under an oppressive regime\u201d, in 2016 a maths book was banned for featuring G\u00fclen\u2019s initials in a question reading \u201cfrom point F to point G\u201d. In December 2016, Turkish newspaper BirG\u00fcn reported<\/a> that 1.8m textbooks had been destroyed and reprinted for containing the \u201cobjectionable\u201d word Pennsylvania, which is where G\u00fclen lives in a guarded compound.<\/a> Streets named G\u00fclen in Ankara have also been renamed, according to reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n