Turkey: Normalizing the State of Emergency
(WorldNews Turkey)

Expand The human rights monument in Ankara cordoned off with a police barricade during Turkey´s state of emergency to prevent its use as a site of public assembly and protest, 2017. © 2017 private (Istanbul)-A draft law being rushed through Turkey´s parliament will preserve many of the abusive powers granted to the president and executive under the country´s recent state of emergency, which formally ended on July 18, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed law will allow authorities under the presidency, for the next three years, to dismiss judges and all other public officials arbitrarily. It also would allow the authorities to restrict movement within Turkey, ban public...