After two-year purge, Turkey to end state of emergency
(WorldNews Turkey)

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the state of emergency on July 20, 2016, five days after warplanes bombed Ankara and bloody clashes broke out in Istanbul in a doomed putsch bid that claimed 249 lives. The measure, which normally lasts three months but was extended seven times, has seen the detention of some 80,000 people and about double that number sacked from jobs in public institutions. The biggest purge of Turkey`s modern history has targeted not just alleged supporters of Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher blamed for the coup, but also...