Turkey's emergency state body concludes 83 pct of appeals

Turkey's presidential commission on the state of emergency concluded 83 percent of the applications on March 27, concerning measures taken in the aftermath of the July 2016 defeated coup attempt.

The Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures gave details of the applications over measures adopted under the state of emergency decree-laws, such as the dismissal of public officials, scholarship cancellations, annulment of the ranks of retired personnel, and the closure of some institutions.

The commission took nearly 132,000 measures, including 125,678 dismissals from public service over links to the FETÖ, the terrorist group behind the defeated coup and a plot to infiltrate the Turkish state.

The commission started the decision-making process in December 2017, and took over 105,000 decisions as of March 27, said the report.

Some 11,200 applications were accepted, while 93,900 were rejected. There are 21,200 pending applications, according to the report.

"Accordingly, 83 percent of the applications have been decided within 27 months since the date of the beginning of the Commission's decision-making process," it read.

A data processing infrastructure was set up to receive, archive, and examine applications electronically, the commission said, adding that information acquired from over 20 institutions and organizations was recorded in the system.

Some 250 staffers, including 80 rapporteurs - judges, experts, and inspectors - worked in the application review process.

A total of 490,000 files - including personnel files transferred from relevant institutions, court files, and former applications - were classified, registered, and archived.

The institutions, where the applicants most recently held...