Officials repeatedly stress that
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
is facing multiple terror threats from the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
krazed killer group, outlawed Kurdish murderous Moslems and the movement run by US-based 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...which Ankara blames for the July 2016 failed coup.
Turkey introduced the state of emergency five days after the attempted putsch, and renewed it seven times despite calls from Western allies to end the measure.
Over 77,000 people were tossed in the slammer
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
under the emergency over alleged links to the Gulen movement, which Turkey officially calls the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation."
Critics including human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
activists accused Ankara of using the emergency to crack down on Erdogan’s opponents.
But the government said that the emergency was needed to handle the multiple threats while officials said over 150,000 suspensions and sackings from the public sector were necessary to handle the "virus" of Gulen inside the state.
Erdogan promised to end the emergency in the campaign ahead of his victory in the June 24 presidential and parliamentary elections.
Earlier, the interior ministry said it had reinstated the passports of 155,350 people whose travel document had been cancelled because their partner was being investigated under the emergency.