Erdogan says Turkey cannot lift State of Emergency until fully calm

[brooklynite]

Source: Jerusalem Post

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday Turkey could not lift a state of emergency imposed in the aftermath of a failed coup last July until the country was completely calm.

"We cannot lift the rule of emergency unless everything reaches peace and welfare," Erdogan told a meeting of business leaders in Istanbul.


He said that parts of Turkey's southeast and eastern regions, where the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been fighting a decades-old insurgency, were still flooded with weapons.

"At the moment the mountains in the southeast and east are filled with caves, cities have been set up underground filled with ammunition," Erdogan said.

Read more: http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Erdogan-says-Turkey-cannot-lift-state-of-emergency-until-fully-calm-492151

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You can't be too careful...

[Thomas Hurt]

1. FF45 must be green with envy.......

[dhol82]

2. And that would be...........never?

Sounds like a wet dream for the dump.

[Archae]

3. Just like Hitler's "emergecy" with the Jews..

[DetlefK]

4. And the EU cannot admit Turkey as a member until it adheres to basic democratic rule.

Turkey is bitching and whining that the EU and especially Germany (which has a huge turkish minority) won't move to a closer relationship with Turkey... Turkey knows very well what it would take to become a part of the EU: A streamlining of legal and regulatory standards to those of the EU-countries. Except Turkey absolutely refuses to do that.

Turkey is on a path to a religious dictatorship. After Syria, the next big wave of refugees coming to Europe will be Turks.

[Wolf Frankula]

5. There is nothing so permanent as a temporary 'emergency'.

We have seen that many times before.

Wolf

[paleotn]

6. Germany was technically in a state of emergency....

from the Reichstag fire until the surrender in 1945. That's an old play, Erdogan. Got anything new?