GENEVA (17 January 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* urged the Turkish Government not to extend the exceptional legal measures it has taken under its declared state of emergency, due to expire on 19 January. Since the attempted coup in July 2016, Turkey declared and then prolonged the state of emergency five times and introduced 18 constitutional amendments that extended the President’s powers into both the legislative branch and the judiciary. Furthermore, a total of 22 Presidential Decrees were adopted since July 2016 (the last one adopted on 24…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 17 January 2018. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.