ERDOGAN’S IRON FIST: 32,000 people arrested since failed coup in Turkey.

The Turkish justice minister says 32,000 people have been arrested since the country’s failed coup, and more may follow.

In a live interview with private broadcaster NTV on Wednesday, Bekir Bozdag said 70,000 people have been processed and 32,000 were formally arrested since the July 15 coup attempt. “There may be new arrests or releases according to the evidence and information gathered in the investigation,” Bozdag said.

He also said Turkey was building a courthouse in the outskirts of Ankara, the national capital, for the prosecution of suspected coup plotters.

The way these things go, the special courthouse will likely have “special” judges, too — the kind Erdogan can count on.

Also, “50,000 people have been expelled from the civil service” by emergency decree.

It wasn’t a failed coup; it’s a successful purge.