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Turkey to recruit 5,000 new ‘security guards’ for southeast | |
2016-10-22 | |
The government has decided to recruit 5,000 additional village guards in a bid to combat the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) east and southeast Anatolia, daily Habertürk has reported. At a meeting at the presidential palace in the capital Ankara on Oct. 20, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu told attendees of a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and 49 NGO representatives and opinion leaders from the region. In line with the plans, the newly recruited personnel will officially be named “security guards” rather than “permanent guards” or “village guards.” Ankara has also decided not to take from the new guards a “weapon fee,” worth 4,000 Turkish Liras, which was paid to the state once every five years. Personnel benefits and social rights of village guards will also be improved, with their retirement age being reduced to 40 or 45, down from the current age of 55. Relatives of retired village guards will also be tenured, according to the new measures.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#3 The hicks in the sticks are reliable (in any case, poor and more buyable), Read faces, not novels, Are aces with shovels... Those yokels are oh-so-deniable. |
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-10-22 21:13 |
#2 Frees up military assets for use elsewhere. |
Posted by: Pappy 2016-10-22 14:00 |
#1 Yippy's Brownshirts |
Posted by: Frank G 2016-10-22 13:09 |