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09/10/2016 GMT

Turkey Post-coup Purges

BBC World Service - Weekend, Turkey Post-coup Purges

Turkey purges police officers; Could humans live forever?; Tasting water for a living.

Why thousands of Turkish police officers were suspended for alleged links with a US-based Muslim cleric this week; New study claims that we have  reached the limit of our potential life span; The life of a water sommelier.

(Picture: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Credit: Getty)

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