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(Caracas, July 18, News24) .- Turkey raises state of emergency declared in the country after the coup d'etat July 15, 2016 although the government plans to maintain several of its repressive measures with a new anti-terrorist law.
In effect since July 20, 2016, the exception state that officially ends at midnight has been extended seven times since, thanks to the parliamentary majority of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power since 2002.
The Turkish government justified this situation by the fight against terrorism, and especially against the supposed supporters of Fethullah Gülen, leader of an Islamic brotherhood with thousands of supporters in Turkey that Ankara attributes to the coup d'etat .
Under the state of emergency, which allowed the authorities to issue decrees with the force of law, suspend fundamental freedoms and rights and impose financial and professional obligations on citizens, Turkey suspended validity of the European Convention on Human Rights in its territory.
During the last two years, the authorities ] carried out an unprecedented cleansing of state and private structures, with the rejection by decree of some 130,000 civil servants – including judges, the police and the military – without the persons concerned being able to appeal these decisions before the Justice
In addition, many media close to Gülen and the Kurdish left have been closed and, according to Amnesty International, 1,300 NGOs have been closed in Turkey by decree.
Tens of thousands of people are arrested for alleged ties to the coup .
Now the opposition criticizes the lifting of the state of emergency, long required also by human rights advocates from within and from the 39, outside the country, does not seem to put an end to this repressive policy.
On the one hand, with the new presidential system in effect after the June 24 elections, which gives the president broad executive powers Erdogan will continue to govern by decree.
Moreover, Parliament will debate tomorrow a draft new anti-terrorism law, which it expects to maintain many restrictions on the rights and prerogatives of the government that have ruled since 2016. [19659004Itisexpectedthatthelawprovidingfortheextensionoftheperiodallowingthepolicetodetainasuspectwithoutcharge be approved the following weeks with the vote of the deputies of the AKP and of the nationalist party MHP .
Among others, will give ministers the power to dismiss officials considered two suspects of terrorist links, while regional governors may prohibit entry into certain areas when they deem it justified.
In the fact that some of the 25 articles of the new law will be valid for three years the opposition de facto sees an extension of the state of emergency for the same period of time .
According to information from AFP .
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