Under the Turkish Constitution, the emergency measures allow the government to “partially or entirely” suspend “the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms”, so long as it doesn’t violate global law obligations.
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And German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman, in more direct comments, said that in Turkey “nearly every day we are seeing new measures that flout the rule of law and that disregard the principle of proportionality”.
Turkish state media said a further 32 judges and two military officers have been detained by authorities during the crackdown since last week’s coup.
“The state of emergency in Turkey won’t include restrictions on movement, gatherings and free press etc. It isn’t martial law of 1990s”, he wrote on Twitter.
“I don’t think we have come to the end of it”, he said.
Markets were less than confident.
Gulen has denied any role in the coup attempt, warning the Turks instead that the move could have been orchestrated by the government to purge its opponents.
Turkey in 2002 lifted its last state of emergency, which had been imposed in provinces in the southeast for the fight against Kurdish militants in 1987.
The spokesperson signaled that if the USA fails to extradite Gulen, Turkey will start to respond to extradition demands from the United States with a reciprocal principle.
“The current allegations of torture and ill-treatment of detainees and arbitrary arrests already point to serious violations of human rights”, he said.
Erdogan said he will bring back the death penalty if the public wants it.
Speaking in the Turkish parliament, Bozdag also said citizens would not feel any change in their lives during the state of emergency and that it would not negatively impact the economy or investments.
Simsek ruled out the use of torture or curfews, but added that the government would need to “double and triple check” the central bank and Treasury for coup plotters. “But there’s also a large segment of the population that’s kind of proud they faced down a coup”, Peter says. He identified “structural and individual” intelligence failures during the coup attempt and also said that work was underway to restructure the army, NTV reported.
Erdogan has said the sweep is not yet over and that he believes foreign countries might have been involved in the attempt to overthrow him.
A nationalist opposition party supported the state of emergency but other opposition politicians were uneasy.
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He has accused followers of his arch-enemy, US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, of being behind the coup, which has led to a wave of some 50,000 arrests and sackings of suspected conspirators.
