Turkey Coup: Erdogan declares three-month state of emergency

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helps to carry a coffin with a victim of a thwarted coup following a funeral service in Istanbul, Turkey, July 17, 2016.

“The objective of state of emergency is to be able to take most efficient steps to remove threat as soon as possible”, he said.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also said his country will suspend the European Human Rights Convention, in line with an article contained within the agreement allowing for it during emergencies, as it prepares to implement the country’s new state of emergency after the failed coup.

Turkey’s National Security Council is holding an emergency meeting following a coup attempt last week that was derailed by security forces and protesters loyal to the government.

According to The Guardian, the president defended the ensuing clampdown, in which thousands have been arrested or sacked, media outlets shut down and the reintroduction of the death penalty discussed, while saying that citizens should not have “the slightest concern with regards to democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights and freedoms”.

The US-based cleric’s movement, which espouses moderation and multi-faith harmony, says it is a scapegoat.

Anadolu said Erdogan’s main military aide, Erkan Kivrak, had also been taken into custody. “But there’s also a large segment of the population that’s kind of proud they faced down a coup”, Peter says.

These are “necessary precautions vis a vis the threat of terror, democracy, rule of law”. Mr. Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania, and his backers operate education networks in Turkey, the United States and elsewhere.

WikiLeaks said it had brought forward publication “in response to the government’s post-coup purges”, which have seen around 50,000 public officials removed from their jobs. He said coup plotters would be tried “on charges of treason and attempt to change the constitutional order illegally”.

More than 15,000 education staff have been suspended and deans across the country have been ordered to step down.

Mr Erdogan said a new structure in the armed forces would be put in place in a short time, and that the military must have learned serious lessons from the coup attempt. On Wednesday, academics were barred from traveling overseas for work in an effort to prevent scholars and university teachers accused of participation in the coup plot from fleeing the country, Turkish officials said…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said today in Washington that he told his Turkish counterpart: “Please don’t send us allegations, send us evidence; we need to have evidence which we can then make a judgment about”.

“I don’t think we have come to the end of it yet”.