Yeni Türkiye

The Economist yazdı.

Having cost more than 50,000 people their freedom and at least 125,000 civil servants their jobs, the country’s state of emergency ended today, almost two years to the day after it began. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proclaimed emergency law in July 2016, shortly after a failed coup claimed more than 250 lives, and has used it to purge the army and other state institutions of followers of the Gulen movement, the Islamic sect he accuses of masterminding the plot. It has also proved a handy excuse to get rid of other government critics. Mr Erdogan recently won re-election, inaugurating a new constitution that hands him full control of the executive, weakens parliament and judges, and allows the president to rule by decree. Over the past week he has also beefed up Turkey’s already draconian anti-terrorism laws. The state of emergency may be gone, but the fear in the air is not.