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| Turkish parliament approves the extension |
Turkish parliament approved on Tuesday the government's decision to extend the state of emergency in the country for three months, after it was imposed after a failed coup attempt in July.
It was decided to extend the state of emergency in the country for three months starting from one o'clock in the morning local time on the 19th of October.
Voting formality, especially since the ruling Justice and Development Islamic conservative President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a comfortable majority in parliament.
At the end of September, Erdogan called for the extension of a state of emergency, saying that the period of the first 3 months, "inadequate" and announced his intention to keep it for a period of years.
The state of emergency imposed on the twentieth of July for a period of three months, after the failed coup of the 15 of the same month.
And justify the Turkish authorities to extend a state of emergency to continue the investigations related to the failed coup and took responsibility for calling Fethullah Gulen lives in the United States.
The Turkish authorities carried out an unprecedented purge campaign to oust the supporters of Gulen in the ministries and the fields of education, universities, judiciary, police, military, prisons and the press.
According to the latest toll from an official source until the end of September arrested 32 thousand people, and there are 70 thousand under investigation
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