Turkey to Suspend Human-Rights Convention

As the fallout from Turkey’s failed coup continues, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters the country will suspend its honoring of the European Human Rights Convention while it implements a state of emergency. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced a three-month state of emergency, and the country’s parliament was set to approve the measure on Thursday. In the aftermath of the coup, Turkey issued a blanket ban on academics leaving the country and has implemented a wide-ranging purge of 50,000 government workers, journalists, soldiers, police, judges, and students.