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Emergence of a police state
If Sezer signs into law the legislation enhancing the powers of the police, we are afraid Turkey will become a police state

Yusuf KANLI
As it was ending its term and going into recess, the Turkish Parliament legislated in great haste a draft that considerably increases the powers of the police. Turkish police , under that text, was given the power to finger print everyone – even those Turks applying for any reason to the police – or to ambush and search houses with orders from the local administrator, or... Read more