Turkey Says 6,000 People Have Been Detained After Failed Coup

Pro-Erdogan supporters gather at Taksim square in Istanbul to support the government on July 16, 2016, following a failed coup attempt.
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Turkey’s justice minister says that some 6,000 people have been detained following a failed coup attempt.
That includes some 3,000 military personnel detained in bases around the country, as NPR’s Leila Fadel tells Weekend Edition Sunday.
According to Turkey’s foreign ministry, the incident killed at least 290 peo