Teachers, doctors, tax collectors: In Turkey`s sweeping purges, ordinary people are branded enemies of the state
(LA Times Dodgers)

They gathered, as they have every few days since February, in a concrete plaza in western Istanbul beneath a large, rippling Turkish flag. Someone passed out snacks and orange soda. They donned vests, chanted slogans and danced to an old socialist song blaring from a portable speaker. People hurried...