10 things you need to know today: July 17, 2016

Turkey detains 6,000 people in connection with Friday's failed coup, Nice attacker 'had psychological problems,' and more

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1. Turkey detains 6,000 people in connection with Friday's failed coup

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday his government has detained 6,000 people, about 3,000 of them soldiers, in connection with Friday night's failed military coup. He expects the number of arrests to continue to rise. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also indicated that Turkey's parliament might consider introducing the death penalty. Erdogan blames the coup on Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, and has called on the United States to extradite him. In addition to the arrests, the Turkish government dismissed 2,745 judges Saturday, detaining at least 12 high-ranking justices on grounds that they had "financial transactions and communications" with coup organizers.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.