Turkish police now go's to work with packed suitcases, 500 cops removed from posts overnight.

Turkish police now go's to work with packed suitcases, 500 Turkish police removed from posts overnight.(TZ).

Erdogan: "Democracy is like a train. We shall get out when we arrive at the station we want."

A total of 500 police from the National Police Department, including some chiefs and deputy chiefs, were removed from their posts overnight in the latest phase of what appears to be a bureaucratic purge.

The removal and reassignment of police members from their posts is gaining pace following the appointment of new Interior Minister Efkan Ala.

The former interior minister, Muammer Güler, handed in his resignation to the prime minister days after the breaking of a major anti-corruption operation. Güler and two other ministers resigned due to their alleged involvement in corruption and bribery.Ala, who was appointed to the vacant Cabinet position in a reshuffle on Dec. 25, 2013, previously removed three deputy chiefs at the Ankara Police Department, who had only recently been reassigned to those positions.

And last night, 500 more police were removed from their posts in the National Police Department, many of them from its Anti-smuggling and Organized Crime Bureau.Furthermore, six deputy police chiefs were removed from their posts in the Ankara Police Department.The large number of police wanting to learn about their new posts caused the police intranet to freeze due to the heavy traffic. Hmmm.......Turkey now officially a banana republic?
  
Update: The Interior Ministry has sacked and reassigned over 3,000 police officers since an investigation into corruption and bribery became public on Dec. 17, 2013

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