Speaking of the attempted coup, he said: “This is a mistake and it should be corrected as soon as possible”.
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The 550-member Parliament is set to approve Erdogan’s request on Wednesday for a three-month state of emergency. Of those, 317 are members of Mr Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party.
The president accuses a US -based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, of being behind the coup and the state broadcaster described his followers as being part of the “Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization”.
“No one said “Human rights are being lost in France or markets are collapsing”.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks after an emergency meeting of the government in Ankara, Turkey, late Wednesday, July 20, 2016.
If Turkey were to reintroduce the death penalty, which it scrapped more than a decade ago in order to meet one of the standards for European Union membership, it would spell doom for any possibility of its joining the bloc.
Since the July 15 coup attempt, the government has arrested almost 10,000 people.
Government-backed security forces in a state of emergency do not need the usual authorization from a judge to search people. “Even Gulen himself said that ‘someone who loves us might be among those conducted the coup”, Kalin said.
Saban Ceylan, a taxi driver in Istanbul, said he expected his income to drop because of the state of emergency.
Video screens Wednesday night in Istanbul’s Taksim Square show President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he announced a three-month state of emergency following last Friday’s failed coup.
Simsek, the deputy prime minister, said there could have been “carnage in the streets” if last week’s coup succeeded. “And in the days and weeks ahead, I am sure, they have some of their own ideas and plans on how to go about their own future”. “We will have a legal framework for it”, he said.
“There will be no curfews”.
The state of emergency in Turkey will allow Erdogan to bypass parliament to pass laws, and to temporarily suspend any rights or freedoms they deem necessary to maintain order.
“We call on Turkish authorities to respect under any circumstances the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right of all individuals concerned to a fair trial”, they said in the statement. He said the move was justified under a convention article allowing for such a suspension in times of emergency.
A state of emergency has never been declared nationwide although it was declared in Turkey’s restive, Kurdish-dominated southeast between 1987 and 2002. “It isn’t martial law of 1990s”, he wrote on Twitter.
The education ministry said it chose to close 626 private schools and other establishments that are under investigation for “crimes against the constitutional order and the running of that order”, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
“We support the democratic government”.
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Officials from the United States, France and Germany have also reportedly warned Erdogan to act within the law. “Everything will be sorted out in one-and-a-half to two months and all those who are cleared can get back to work with peace of mind”, he said.
