ANKARA: Turkey’s state-run Turkish Airlines said on Monday that it had fired 211 employees, citing their links to a religious movement that President Tayyip Erdogan had blamed for the failed attempt to overthrow the government on July 15. In a statement, the airline said that the employees’ contracts were terminated due to operational necessity, inefficiency, poor performance as well as providing support to the movement of US- based cleric Fethullah Gulen.