Turkey’s parliament has extended a state of emergency implemented after a failed coup last year.
Lawmakers approved a three-month extension. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party has a comfortable majority in the parliament. The primary decision to prolong the measure was made by the security board on July fourteenth. Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said it will be lifted when conditions are appropriate. 249 people were killed when an army faction sent tanks into the streets and warplanes into the sky in a bid to overthrow Erdogan’s government. The coup was thwarted within hours. Some 50-thousand people have been arrested and over 100-thousand others fired or suspended from their jobs in a government crackdown. Ankara blames the putsch on US-based opposition figure Fethullah Gulen.
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