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Co-leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas speaks during a rally against the military coup and the state of emergency at the Gazi district in Istanbul on July 23, 2016.Turkey pushed on July 23, 2016 with a sweeping crackdown against suspects accused of taking part in the failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extending police powers to hold people in detention and shuttering over 1,000 private schools. A week after renegade soldiers tried to oust him with guns, tanks and F16s, Erdogan's government has rounded up or sacked tens of thousands of perceived state enemies, including almost 300 officers of the guard shielding his Ankara palace. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)