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On Thursday July 21, six days after the failed coup d’état, Turkey’s parliament approved a bill declaring a state of emergency allowing the government to rule by decree for three months. [10] On the same day, Erdogan announced that the European Convention on Human Rights had been suspended.
On 12 February, Turkey issued 1,112 more detention orders, under the charge of organizing the 2016 Turkey coup. [ 155 ] According to Turkish government data from March 2019, about 500,000 people were detained since the coup attempt, of which about 30,000 were in custody at the time of the information. [ 156 ]
[2] [3] The next day, 2 statements were issued by the European Commission. One was by Federica Mogherini and the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, and stated the condemnation of the attempted coup while stressing the need for "a swift return to Turkey's constitutional order". [4]
As opposed to previous political interventions by the Turkish military, Turkey's AKP government and pro-state media maintain that the 15 July 2016 coup attempt was not motivated by allegiance to Kemalist ideology, but rather to the vast political, economic, and religious network led by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen. [89]
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This is a list of media outlets that were shut down in the course of the 2016 Turkish purges. On 27 July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shut down 16 television channels, 23 radio stations, 45 daily newspapers, 15 magazines and 29 publishing houses in another emergency decree under the newly adopted emergency legislation . [ 1 ]
Pages in category "2016–17 purges in Turkey" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Turkey's media purge after the failed July 2016 coup d ...