Turkey’s Erdogan signals post-coup emergency state extension

‘Turkey’s president has suggested the possibility of prolonging for over a year the three-month state of emergency declared following the abortive July 15 military coup, stressing that such a move would be beneficial for the country.
“It would be in Turkey’s benefit to extend the state of emergency for three months,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech to a group of provincial administrators at the presidential palace in the capital, Ankara, on Thursday.
The remarks came as rights groups and Turkey’s main opposition party have criticized an extension of the state of emergency, saying it would lead to greater crackdown and the suffering of innocent people.’
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