Posted on 05/23/2017 10:59:11 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Workers in Bursa protesting the dismissals demanding their jobs back.
An Amnesty International report was released on Monday focusing on the dismissal of public servants, including police officers, teachers, soldiers, doctors, judges, prosecutors and academics, by executive decree issued under the powers of the 10-months long state of emergency in Turkey.
The mass dismissals have according to the report been “carried out arbitrarily on the basis of vague and generalized grounds of ‘connections to terrorist organizations’”.
The summary dismissals were accompanied by expulsions from all forms of public service resulting in the complete deprival of any sort of income. While completely depending on families and friends, the dismissed public servants cannot seek work opportunities in other countries as the authorities have cancelled their passports.
Amnesty International’s recommendations for the Turkish government included an end to the summary and arbitrary dismissals and a call for the installment of an immediate and working appeal mechanism for the dismissed.
Currently, no courts in Turkey have accepted jurisdiction to review the dismissals.
Public workers have protested the dismissals widely and some have even gone on hunger strike to be reinstated to their jobs.
Amnesty called on Turkey’s state allies, the European Union and the Council of Europe to “call on Turkey to end unfair dismissals and grant effective appeals, recognising that existing appeal mechanisms do not represent an effective domestic remedy.”
The state of emergency, first declared by the government on 20 July 2016 is currently due to expire on 19 July 2017. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that the country’s ongoing state of emergency will continue until Turkey achieves “peace and welfare”.
If allowed unchecked, more invasion of neighboring countries and genocide will result. There is great precedent for that each time an Islamist headed the government in Turkey.
Mass dismissal is what we need in Washington.
We need to DownSize DC.
Close entire Rogue/Unconstitutional Departments.
Yes, that means elimination of jobs.
Turkey is not the US.
This is done in Turkey to promote the interest of Erdogan the Islamist and his supporters. This is the way governments generally operate in the Middle East.
They say: Support us or we will kill you.
Turkey and Erdogan are in the wrong, no doubt about that.
Then look at the neighborhood and the dictators it has produced, Sadam, the Mullahs in Iran, Assad.
I regret that lost opportunity.
Granted, it is awful that Edrogan is taking this direction. There was an attempt to overthrow his gov, which would’ve caused worse chaos than even in Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Iraq. Is the US helping identify if any of those forces were involved with the US or residents here?
Bingo! Bingo! Bingo!
Reforming the civil service laws to allow easier firings would be a great step for Congress to take, but since Congress can’t even simply re-pass the O’care elimination bill that they did pass in the last session, that’s apparently too much to hope for.
The swamp is deep.
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