Friday, July 22, 2016
Turkey suspending human rights "temporarily"
In the aftermath of the attempted coup against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, his purge of secular elements has included the suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Turkey will temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human rights as it implements a three-month state of emergency, the country's deputy prime minister said.The Turkish government says it will only be for 3 months but this sort of thing has a way of stretching itself out and will probaly last until the end of Mr Erdogan's upcoming caliphate.
The emergency state was implemented following a failed coup last weekend during which over 250 were killed.
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Thursday that the state of emergency could end before the three months are up and may only last for one to one and a half month, according to broadcaster NTV.
Turkey will follow in the footsteps of France, which also opted out of some of the convention's aspects during an emergency state implemented in November 2015 after terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people.
President Tayyip Erdogan said the state of emergency, which he announced on Wednesday, would enable the authorities to act more efficiently to bring those responsible to justice.
Turkey tried to assure its citizens and the outside world on Thursday that there will be no return to the deep repression of the past, even though Erdogan has imposed the first nationwide state of emergency since the 1980s.
With Erdogan cracking down on thousands of people in the judiciary, education, military, and civil service after last weekend's failed coup, a lawmaker from the main opposition party warned that the state of emergency created "a way of ruling that paves the way for abuse".
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