Turkey ends state of emergency after two years
Ankara, July 19 : The Turkish government has ended the nationwide state of emergency that was imposed two years ago after a failed coup attempt, the media reported.
The decision comes weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election, BBC reported on Wednesday. Under the state of emergency, tens of thousands of people were arrested or dismissed from their jobs.
However, the government has decided against extending it again after seven three-month renewals. During the campaign, opposition candidates said the first thing they would do if they won would be to end the state of emergency.
More than 107,000 people have been removed from public sector jobs by emergency decree since the state of emergency began and more than 50,000 people have been imprisoned pending trial, according to official statistics and NGOs.
Many of those dismissed are alleged to be supporters of the exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the US and is a former ally of Erdogan. Turkey accuses Gulen and his followers of organising the coup, but he denies it.
The 2016 coup attempt saw Parliament bombed by military aircraft and more than 250 people killed.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
