[AA.TR] The new law says citizens abroad who do not respond to judicial summons issued by courts or prosecutors within 90 days might face losing their citizenship.It says police have been authorized to access identity information of internet subscribers for the purposes of investigating crimes committed online.
The measures appear to be targeting members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), which perpetrated a failed coup attempt on July 15.
As a preventative measure against mass attacks, the decree stipulates that private security personnel would be subject to background checks, and individuals found to be affiliated with any groups threatening national security will not be able to work in private security companies.
They will also not be allowed to take weapons assigned to them outside their place of duty.
The Sick Man of Europe
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
declared a state of emergency after the deadly July 15 coup attempt, which martyred 248 people and injured nearly 2,200 others.
Turkey Dismisses over 8,000 in New Wave of Post-Coup Purges
[AnNahar] Turkey on Saturday ordered the dismissal of almost 8,400 civil servants and the closure of over 80 associations, including sports clubs, in the latest round of purges after the July failed coup.
More than 100,000 people have already been suspended or sacked in a crackdown on those alleged to have links to coup-plotters in a relentless purge that shows no sign of slowing.
According to three new decrees published within the state of emergency imposed after the coup, 8,390 more civil servants are to lose their jobs from 63 different state institutions.
They include 2,687 coppers, 1,699 civil servants from the justice ministry, 838 health officials and hundreds of employees from other ministries.
Another 631 academics and eight members of the Council of State were also dismissed.
The dismissals are authorised by the cabinet and require no parliamentary approval under the state of emergency, which has twice been extended and is now due to last until April 19.
The three decrees published in the Official Gazette also ordered the closure of 83 associations accused of "activities affecting the security of the state". These include eight sports clubs, mainly from the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country.
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...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
police have also authorised to access the identity of internet subscribers to investigate crimes committed online.
The state of emergency has also seen closure orders for dozens of media organs. The latest decrees said 11 of them -- mainly from the southeast -- could now reopen.
More than 41,000 people have also been tossed in the calaboose
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over suspected links to Gulen within the state of emergency, with the first trials only now getting underway in the biggest legal process in the country's history.
A court in the eastern city of Erzurum on January 5 sentenced two army officers to life in jail over their roles in the failed coup, the first verdicts to be handed out.