Posted on 07/19/2018 11:32:51 AM PDT by BeauBo
A state of emergency imposed in Turkey following the failed 2016 coup to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expired.
The end of the decree, which came in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday morning, marked a pledge made by President Erdogan during his successful re-election bid last month.
More than 75,000 people have been detained under the emergency decree and more than 100,000 others have been dismissed from their government jobs for alleged links to followers of U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for the failed coup, as well as Kurdish militant groups.
Turkish lawmakers began debating legislation Thursday that will allow authorities to continue to dismiss civil servants for three years, ban public gatherings after daylight and allow authorities to hold suspects in custody without charge for up to 12 days.
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Thank you. BUT, he is going to make edicts to extend some of the features of the State of Emergency. Like Obama’s executive orders, on steroids.
Don’t expect things to get better.
Just means he has the police state apparatus fully operational.
I’m sure inevitably Hitler ended his “State of Emergency” after the “Night of the Long Knives.”
Oh and here I thought the holidays were soon behind us.
“I’m sure inevitably Hitler ended his “State of Emergency”
We should probably look back to see what Hitler did after the State of Emergency - Erdogan has been borrowing heavily from his playbook so far.
Court fines Turkish opposition leader $74,000 over offshore account claims
The president and his family had opened a 1.5-million lira claim for damages against Kılıçdaroğlu in response.
The prosecution’s lawyers said the claims were unfounded, while Kılıçdaroğlu’s lawyer Celal Çelik presented evidence he said proved Kılıçdaroğlu was telling the truth.
When he lost the case, Çelik threw off his legal gown and left the court in disgust, saying that it would go down in history for its unlawfulness.
The court awarded Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 150,000 lira,
Özdemir Bayraktar 60,000 lira,
Esra Albayrak 22,000 lira,
Sümeyye Erdoğan Bayraktar 22,000 lira,
Necmeddin Bilal Erdoğan 20,000 lira,
Ahmet Burak Erdoğan 16,000 lira,
Ziya İlgen 14,000 lira,
Osman Ketenci 13,000 lira,
and Orhan Uzuner 13,000 lira in compensation.
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Fined $74,000 because he spoke the truth? And presented evidence supporting it, but still lost to the dictator. There is no Adalet in Turkey. Kemal is dead. Turkey will soon be a rolling disaster.
And these 175,000 suddenly remember that somehow, someway, Turkey has avoided being charged with the Armenian genocide for over a century. Woops... Hey, Libtards...see that part about 100,000 losing their govt jobs? That's what happens in a real dictatorship. So knock off the Trump is Hitler schtick.
“Erdogan has been borrowing heavily from his playbook so far.”
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Absolutely True. One of his childhood friends told about Erdogan carrying a copy of Mein Kampf and quoting from it. This is not made up.
Exchange rate in perspective?
Today exchange rate:
1 (TRY) Turkish Lyra = 0.21 USD
1 Mexican Peso = 0.0531 USD
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