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The Turkish authorities on Sunday ordered the dismissal of more than 18,500 state employees, including police, soldiers and academics, before the planned end of a state of emergency. two years this month
. were fired, including 8,998 police officers suspected of links to terrorist organizations that "are acting against national security", in what could be the last of the purges under the rule of urgency.
Turkey is in a state of emergency since the July 2016 attempt The overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but the European Union and critics have repeatedly called on Ankara to end it.
The Turkish media has described Sunday's decree as "last," officials indicating that the government could declare the state of emergency as early as Monday.
The last period should officially end on July 19th.
Critics say that Erdogan uses the additional powers allowed under the emergency rule, renewed seven times, to target And opponents, with human rights defenders, including Amnesty International castigating purges as arbitrary.
But the government says that they are needed to eliminate multiple terrorist threats in state institutions.
Erdogan will be sworn in as President Victory in the June 24 elections under a new executive presidency, following which a lavish ceremony will be held and the new cabinet will be announced.
The current parliamentary system will end on Monday after the approval of constitutional changes in a referendum in 2017. 19659010] During the election campaign, pushed by the promises of his opponents, including his main rival of the opposition, Muharrem Ince, Erdogan promised to lift the emergency state when he was re-elected
"The new government will be announced on Monday, the cabinet will start operating and the State of emergency will be completed, "said outgoing Prime Minister Binali Yildirim last week, while reaffirming that the extension was to end in mid-July
– Continuing Purge –
] Turkey accuses US Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating the attempted coup d'etat. The majority of those who have been dismissed are accused of links with Gulen
The government calls the movement a "terrorist organization Fethullah", but Gulen firmly denies any connection with the coup and insists that his movement is peaceful. 110,000 public sector employees have been dismissed by emergency order since July 2016, while tens of thousands have been suspended in a crackdown criticized by Western allies in Ankara. .
In the new decree, 3,077 soldiers were also fired. 1949 air force officers and 1,126 naval forces.
1,052 officials from the Department of Justice and related institutions were dismissed, 649 from the gendarmerie and 192 from the Coast Guard.
academic, according to the new decree, while 148 army officials and ministries were reinstated.
Earlier this year, the government declared more than 77,000 Arrests show no sign of slowing down after hundreds of people, including soldiers, were arrested last week for ties to Gulen
– Associations, closed newspapers –
Thousands of people have been arrested. have also been dismissed, suspended or arrested for alleged links with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been waging a bloody insurgency against Turkey since 1984.
The PKK is blacklisted 39, Ankara, EU and
Sunday's decree closed 12 badociations, many in the education sector, across the country, as well as three newspapers and a television channel [19659022OneoftheclosednewspaperswastheKurdishdailyWelatbasedinthesoutheasternprovinceofDiyarbakiraswellaspro-KurdishOzgurlukcuDemokrasiwhoseofficesinIstanbulwereattackedbypoliceinMarch
Turkey is in a state of emergency since July 2016 ttempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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