In a 346-115 vote, the Turkish parliament has approved a three month state of emergency across Turkey, the first time such a state will be applied over the entire nation. The vote grants sweeping new powers to President Erdogan, who had already centralized an unprecedented level of power before the failed coup.
The new powers aim to facilitate the expansion of the ongoing purge against broad swathes of Turkish society, allowing longer detention for suspects without charges, and for Erdogan to effectively rule by decree on several issues, without parliament approval.
Beyond that, the state of emergency allows the government to effectively ignore human rights law entirely, with the constitution only limiting them to the extent that there are limits in place from international treaties. Turkey’s withdrawal from the European Commission on Human Rights today suggests that they are planning to pare down such limits.
Turkish officials insisted that they hope the state of emergency will be cancelled within 40-45 days, though it was passed for a three month term. Legally, states of emergency in the country are limited to a maximum of six months.
Turkey has repeatedly imposed a state of emergency in the Kurdish southeast of the country, but has never done so nationwide.
Erdogan knows that only a few people over 90 remember the Enabling Act of 1933. Does Ermächtigungsgesetz have a Turkish translation?
According to Google Translate, “enabling act” in Turkish is sağlayan hareket.
Meanwhile, those 115 who voted “no” will soon disappear.
I think increased powers is what Erdogan wanted all along . Not only did he locate more opposition in the military to purge . He has been granted more power to do so . Why else would he stage a coup Just assuming the coup was staged . He is a Islamist is he not ?
Yes, he is exploiting the coup to expand and increase his power, purge his enemies, etc.
But he would be doing that whether he staged the coup attempt himself or not. The only way he WOULDN’T act that way after a coup attempt is if he was on the losing end of it.
My mind is not closed to the possibility that he staged the coup, or perhaps had his operatives encourage it and monitor it, expecting that he would be able to beat it. But his post-coup-attempt actions aren’t really evidence of that.
I hope everyone can see where this is going, and it ain’t pretty!
Looks very much that the coup had been staged by himself. An “rebel” fighter plane had Erdogans plane on its way to Istanbule locked in, but did not shoot him down. That makes you think.