It has been just a week since the failed military coup against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan took place and the president of Turkey has already managed to detain, suspend or put under investigation around 60,000 civil servants, teachers, judges, police and soldiers.

Some say he had a list of arrests already prepared. Others, that it was a staged coup planned by Erdoğan himself for the purpose of strengthening his authority and getting rid of his adversaries.

Two things we know for sure.

First, the purge is not over. Days ago, Erdoğan suspended the European Convention on Human Rights for the three months that the recently approved State of Emergency will be in place.

Such a move will finally lift one of the last barriers he has been facing for years in order to successfully condemn his enemies — especially due to its Articles 10 and 11, which deal, respectively, with the right to freedom of expression and with the right to freedom of assembly and association, including the right to form trade unions.

Second, the purge didn’t start now in reaction to the failed coup, like he is trying to make us believe.

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