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To no one’s surprise, Erdogan backs extending Turkey’s state of emergency

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To no one’s surprise, Erdogan backs extending Turkey’s state of emergency


Nearly three months after Turkey's elected government thwarted a military coup attempt, a state of emergency remains in place and a purge of suspected coup sympathizers is still unfurling across state institutions and civil society. And this week, the nation's powerful president intimated that the end of this phase was not yet in sight....


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I certainly hope that Medusa doesn't end up getting caught up in all this madness. Paranoid governments can get a lot of innocent people in trouble for stuff they aren't responsible for.
 
Jesse Booth said:
I certainly hope that Medusa doesn't end up getting caught up in all this madness.
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Sorry, but I can't muster up sympathy for anyone who agrees that the US funds ISIS in Syria.
 
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