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A few hours from the settlement of Erdogan plus of 18 thousand officials were removed from the workplace. The second presidential term of the "strongman" of the Anatolian country begins with the ousting of thousands of officials accused of "collaboration with terrorist groups". In recent days, the head of state had announced that he was ready to revoke the "state of emergency" in effect since 2016. The decision above, however, appears as a denial denied government proclamations.
The presidential decree that ratifies the ousting of thousands of officials was published Sunday afternoon in the Official Gazette of the Turkish Republic. The addressees of the provision launched on the eve of Erdogan's settlement are 18,632 state servants, including 9,000 policemen, 6,000 servicemen and 199 university professors . Underlying the decree, there would be "reasons of national security". The dismissed officials were accused of relations with "terrorist groups" . Their removal from the workplace would be a precautionary measure to prevent "unhealthy infiltration into the vital ganglia of the state". The pbadports were immediately removed from the persons covered by the provision. The decree also ordered, for reasons of public safety, the dissolution of 12 badociations and the closure of three newspapers and a television broadcaster. The AKP, the majority party, immediately rose to defend the restrictive measure, presenting it as necessary to protect the nation from "subversive threats". Critics of the choice of president were rather expressed by the opposition figures. Muharrem İnce, a member of the Republican People's Party and Erdogan's main challenger in the last presidential elections, denounced the "anti-liberal policies" advocated by the head of state
The 18,000 civil servants dismissed were the last beneficiaries of restrictive measures based on the rules introduced in 2016, following the failed military state coup. According to the United Nations, over the past two years, more than 160,000 civil servants have been fired for being accused of links to terrorist or subversive organizations. Most foreigners would not have been the subject of any official indictment. In fact, only one third of them would have been the subject of criminal prosecution. The UN nonetheless emphasized the constant violation, by the Ankara authorities, of guarantees enshrined in international conventions against those who are accused in a lawsuit. The end of "state of emergency" in the light of the layoffs organized on the eve of the colonization of Erdogan, seems therefore more and more distant.
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