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Turkey President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three-month state of emergency after a failed military coup. Erdogan said the measure was being taken to counter threats to Turkish democracy. He was speaking after a meeting with Cabinet ministers and top security advisers in Ankara yesterday.
Turkey had imposed martial law-like emergency rule in the southeast of the country in 1987. It allowed officials to set curfews, issue search and arrest warrants and restrict gatherings as the security forces fought Kurdish rebels in the region. The emergency rule was gradually lifted by 2002.
Erdogan has warned of further arrests and suspensions to come as Turkish authorities continued to pursue those they believed responsible for the failed coup. More than 50 thousand state employees have been rounded up, sacked or suspended in the days since the coup attempt.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, he believes foreign countries might have been involved in last week’s failed coup attempt, though he declined to name any.
Speaking to a news channel, Erdogan also dismissed suggestions that he was becoming authoritarian and that Turkish democracy was under any threat. He said, Turkey will remain within a democratic parliamentary system and will never step away from it.