Turkey lifts state of emergency after two-year purge, but will anyone even notice?
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World Turkey lifts state of emergency after two-year purge, but will anyone even notice? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech at a July 15, 2018, ceremony marking the two years since a failed coup against him. (Ozan Kose / AFP/Getty Images) A two-year state of emergency during which thousands were jailed or stripped of their livelihoods was lifted early Thursday, buoying the hopes of some that a time of repression and stifled free speech in Turkey was at an end. Opposition leaders and human rights activists, however, cautioned that ending the state of emergency could be largely cosmetic and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was likely to continue flexing his...