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The Turkish government is preparing new anti-terrorism regulations after the state of emergency. According to a bill, the German News Agency, the governors should at least keep some of their power from the state of emergency.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech on the second anniversary of the failure of the coup d'etat in Turkey. In the night of Thursday, the state of emergency should expire. (Photo: KEYSTONE / EPA / ERDEM SAHIN)
(sda / dpa)
You are authorized to give access to certain places to persons suspected of "breach of public order or the public order". security "deny. In addition, they should be allowed to restrict the freedom of assembly. Suspects can be held in custody between 48 hours and 12 days. It is more than before the beginning of the state of emergency.
End of the night Thursday
The state of emergency is scheduled to expire on Thursday night (Thursday), according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman. Erdogan had imposed the state of emergency after the coup attempt in July 2016 and extended it seven times. This restricts fundamental rights.
Tens of thousands of people were imprisoned and about 130,000 public servants lost their jobs. The government does not seem to rule out new layoffs – the draft regulates in detail how judges, members of the armed forces or ministry staff can be fired.
As in the state of emergency, the state wants to continue to withdraw passports for those who have been dismissed from the public service because they were suspected of terrorism. In addition, the state may search for "information about telecommunications" not only from suspects, but also from spouses and children.
Warnings of the Opposition
Some critical media outlets of the government had warned that the government was establishing a new state of emergency under another name wanting to make it permanent. According to the bill, the law will initially be valid for three years from its entry into force.
The anti-terrorist law provided by the government "will prolong the state of emergency not for three months but for three years" Ozgür Ozel (opposition)
The former editor-in-chief from the Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, went even further in an interview with the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" in Germany and compared the situation in Turkey with the situation In Germany, after the Reichstag fire in 1933, "he unfortunately there are unbelievably disturbing parallels, "he said.
Dündar called on Germany to defend its democratic values against Turkey. What Germany says is heard in Turkey, and if Turkey develops in the direction of a dictatorship, Germany must oppose
Dündar lives in exile in Germany since July 2016. He is tried for espionage in Turkey.
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