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The Grand Turk
Turkey to lift state of emergency
2018-07-14
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
will next week lift the state of emergency introduced after a failed 2016 coup and which granted the government greater powers to detain suspects, presidential front man Ibrahim Kalin said on Friday.

"The current state of emergency is coming to an end on the night of July 18. Mr President has the will... not to extend it," Kalin told news hounds after the first cabinet meeting since President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
's outright election victory last month.

Under emergency rule, renewed seven times since the abortive coup against Erdogan's elected government, over 110,000 public sector employees have been removed from their jobs via emergency decrees while tens of thousands more have been suspended in a crackdown criticised by Ankara's Western allies.

However the government says the purges are needed to rid the state of the "virus" of Moslem preacher Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
blamed by the authorities for criminal masterminding the coup bid.

Gulen, who is based in the US, has denied any role.

Kalin added that the lifting of emergency rule would slow down Turkey's fight against terror, but that the fight would continue under counter-terrorism laws.

And he said that if Turkey faces another "extraordinary threat, the state of emergency might be reintroduced".
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