Turkey’s President declares three month emergency following failed coup attempt

Q.  Which country has declared an emergency following a failed coup attempt?
- Published on 21 Jul 16

a. Turkey
b. Spain
c. Russia
d. Iran

ANSWER: Turkey
 
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared a three month state of emergency following a botched coup attempt declaring he would rid the virus of subversion and carry out mass arrests.
  • Measure would counter threats to the nation;s democracy.
  • Security measures could facilitate longer detentions for close to 10,000 people who have been rounded up since loyalist security forces and protestors stopped the rebellion.
  • State of emergency announcement will now have to be published in state gazette.
  • Turkey imposed Emergency rule in the SE in 1987 allowing officials to set up curfew, issue research and arrest warrants and restrict gatherings- it was lifted by 2002.

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