Armenian trainer Ari Hergel, who worked at İSMEK (Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Training Courses) Center has been sacked, Istanbul-based Agos Armenian newspaper reports.

The same has happened to all the teachers of the center who are suspected of having some kind of relations with Fethullah Gülen, the enemy of the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The sackings started on the heels of the attempted coup. According to Hergel, he has appealed to a court.