Turkey’s deputy prime minister says his country will suspend the European Human Rights Convention as it prepares to implement the country’s new state of emergency after a failed coup.
Parliament is set to approve the three-month state of emergency on Thursday, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced it a day earlier.
Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus says Turkey will suspend the human rights convention in line with an article contained within the agreement allowing for it in time of emergencies.
Turkey goes totalitarian,
and please don’t ask Trump about his opinion…
There has to be a calm but clear reaction from the EU to the effect that a suspension of human rights = a suspension of the EU accession process. Erdogan has completely lost his marbles and is using the coup to wipe out opposition of every kind. Obama should terminate US complicity and relocate the military activities currently operated out of Incirlik air base. Not sure why Greek Cyprus wouldn’t be just as effective a base. Erdogan has to pay a price.
the brits have Akrotiri, on the Greek (South) part of Cyprus, it is used against ISIS
Great. Perfect alternative, then.
This makes me wonder more and more about the origins of the coup. Erdogan’s people clearly had a long list of people they had been watching and wanted an excuse to purge.
Another complication for this is that Turkey is a transit area for millions (!) of refugees. It’s not at all clear what the “state of emergency” does to the status of those refugees under EU rules, since Turkey is now a place that people can be refugees from.
Oh, and anyone want to put odds on the state of emergency being over after 90 days?