Turkey's police force has suspended more than 9,000 officers over alleged links to the US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
It said the action had been taken on the grounds of national security.
Earlier, authorities detained more than 1,000 people in the latest operation against alleged Gulen supporters, BBC reported.
The nationwide sweep was one of the largest such operations carried out in Turkey in months.
As well as the 1009 detained on Wednesday, arrest warrants were issued for another 3224 people, as part of a police operation across Turkey's 81 provinces, reports said.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said the raids were targeting a Gulenist network "that infiltrated our police force, called 'secret imams'".
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses Gulen of instigating a failed coup against him last July - a charge the cleric denies.
