Turkey has extended its state of emergency by three months starting from Wednesday, its third such extension after a coup attempt last July, a deputy prime minister says. The decision came after the National Security Council advised extending it, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told reporters in a press conference in Ankara on Monday. The decision comes a day after President Tayyip Erdogan narrowly won a referendum granting him sweeping new powers.
The Turkish government survived the attempted coup but has also been grappling with attacks by Islamists, a Kurdish insurgency, civil unrest and war across its Syrian border.
