The 2016 Turkish purges are an ongoing series of purges by the government of Turkey in reaction to the July 15th failed coup d'état. After the immediate arrest of military personnel involved in the coup attempt, arrests were expanded to include further elements of the Turkish military service, as well as various civil servants and private businesses. These later actions, which began to be known as a purge, affected people who were not active in nor aware of the coup as it happened, but who were alleged to be connected with the Gülen movement, a group which the government blames for the coup.