President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the introduction of a state of emergency for three months. This decision was taken for the speedy removal of all consequences of the military coup attempt. Erdogan said this after the Security Council and the Cabinet.
“This step is not in any way directed against democracy, rights and freedoms On the contrary, its purpose is to protect and promote these values,” he said.
“The purpose of the state of emergency is in the implementation of active and swift action to address threats to democracy, the rule of law, human rights and freedoms of our citizens,” he said. What measures the state of emergency will presume he did not specify.
As a result of fire opened by participants of the coup attempt, according to recent data, 246 people were killed and 1,536 people were injured, including civilians, police and military.
After the suppression of the military coup, Erdogan began a purge that has affected nearly 43 thousand education workers, 9,298 policemen and 6,361 military men. Most of the soldiers have been arrested and university teachers have been banned from leaving the country. -02D-
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European observers are creating "distrust" between Baku and Brussels, stated President Ilham Aliyev on Monday during the presentation of credentials by the new Belgian ambassador, Julien de Frepon. Aliyev emphasized that the "binocular diplomacy" of the European monitoring mission is unacceptable and contributes to distrust in Azerbaijan's relations with the European Union. He questioned the necessity of extending the mission and increasing its numbers without consulting Baku.
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Afgan Sadigov, the founder of the Azerbaijani website Azel TV, collapsed in a prison hospital in Georgia while on the 24th day of his hunger strike. His wife, Sevinc Sadigova, reported this, stating that he fell unconscious while trying to drink water and woke up to find doctors around him. Blood tests were taken, but he could not recall how long he had been unconscious.
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The Baku Appeals Court, chaired by Judge Ibrahim Ibrahimli, held a preliminary hearing regarding the case of three foreigners who painted graffiti at a Baku metro depot in March this year
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This year, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, and Simon Johnson for their research on the differences in national wealth. Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in Istanbul in 1986.
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