Turkey's emergency state body concludes 80% of appeals

By Kemal Karadag

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s presidential commission examining emergency state process said on Friday approximately 80% of applications concerning measures taken after a defeated coup attempt in July 2016 have been concluded.

Turkey's Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures in a report gave information about the establishment of commission and all activities from the data analysis system created to the evaluation criteria, from the detection of illegal activities of FETO to decision samples.

The commission received 126,300 applications so far and it concluded around 80% of them within two years, said the report.

The commission has taken 101,500 decisions as of January 31, said the report.

Some 10,200 of the applications were accepted, while 91,300 were rejected. There are 24,800 pending applications, according to the report.

“Judiciary, national police, civil services, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), and some special institutions are accepted as secret places by FETO,” it said.

Members of FETO in the institutions such as national police, Turkish Armed Forces and MIT generally operate under civil imams who are not connected to the relevant institution and these service units have a cell structuring, the report added.

Since the 2016 defeated coup attempt in Turkey, Turkish institutions, including the military, have been working to find and expel elements of FETO, the group behind the coup.

A two-year state of emergency -- which was declared following the July 15, 2016 defeated coup -- was lifted on July 20, 2018.

The coup attempt was orchestrated by FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.

*Writing by Burak Dag