Turkey crackdown widens: Over 50,000 soldiers, judges, police officers and now teachers have been suspended or detained since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan initiated a purge of his country’s’ institutions following a failed coup attempt against his rule, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Over 21,000 teachers have been fired, as have 15,000 employees at the ministry of education. The resignation of all university deans has been demanded by a state-run education council. Oddly enough, 1,500 finance ministry officials have also been let go.

Maintaining a heightened state of hysteria around Gulen’s extradition: Turkey has formally requested the extradition of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, CNN reported, citing Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. US Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly said the US would be willing to hand Gulen over if evidence of his involvement in the coup is first presented, despite treason not being a crime included in the extradition agreement between the two countries.

The United States is, of course, widely being blamed within Turkey for the coup attempt, a symptom of the infinite victimhood routine that grips the minds of the region’s people. The US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass responded to the rumors, saying “Some news reports, and unfortunately, some public figures, have speculated that the United States in some way supported the coup attempt. This is categorically untrue, and such speculation is harmful to the decades-long friendship between two great nations.”

Now we’ve heard it all — Erdogan suspects Egyptian and UAE involvement in the coup attempt? Far-right news site Breitbart claims Ankara is convinced that the intelligence agencies of Egypt and the UAE had some hand in the coup attempt against Erdogan, citing an unnamed Arab intelligence source speaking to Breitbart Jerusalem. “Since Friday, Turkey has reviewed every possible piece of evidence supposedly linking the UAE and Egypt to the attempted coup,” according to the source, including investigating reports that Gulen may have visited the UAE one week before the attempted coup. An alternative explanation, of course, is that Erdogan is mentally unstable and pathologically obsessed with Egypt, a note which should be widely adopted as standard boilerplate whenever his name is mentioned.

Are 14 Turkish navy vessels still missing at sea? Fourteen Turkish navy ships on active duty in the Aegean and Black Seas are still missing after the coup attempt, according to a report by the Times (paywall), despite Turkey’s denial. The Times report suggests the commanders of the ships were part of the failed coup attempt and are steaming toward Greek ports to seek political asylum. Eight Turkish soldiers who already successfully fled to Greece in a Black Hawk helicopter seeking asylum appeared in a Greek court on Monday.