Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says the state of emergency will be "extended one more time" for three months and would be discussed at the next National Security Council meeting. The latest extension is set to end on January 19.
The emergency was introduced a few days after the attempted overthrow of Erdogan on July 15, 2016, blamed on the group led by US-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...Gulen denies the charges but authorities have used the emergency measures to crack down on those alleged to have links to his movement as well as outlawed Kurdish Death Eaters.