{"id":42907,"date":"2020-06-11T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42907"},"modified":"2020-06-11T08:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T08:26:52","slug":"iran-says-will-now-send-ukraine-airliner-black-boxes-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42907","title":{"rendered":"Iran says will now send Ukraine airliner black boxes to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"46\">\n<p>\nISTANBUL: Turkey\u2019s parliament passed a controversial bill on Wednesday giving neighborhood patrols greater powers, with critics accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of wanting to build a loyal \u201cmilitia.\u201d<br \/>The new law gives \u201cnightwatchmen,\u201d who walk the streets at night to report burglaries and disturbances, almost the same powers as police.<br \/>They will now be allowed to carry firearms and have the powers to stop and search people.<br \/>With more than 28,000 members, the nightwatchmen institution \u2014 which is attached to the interior ministry and dates back more than 100 years \u2014 has grown considerably after an attempted coup in July 2016 against Erdogan.<br \/>The bill\u2019s debate in parliament triggered heated exchanges, with deputies even coming to blows during a feisty session on Tuesday.<br \/>Erdogan\u2019s AKP party, which put forward the bill, says the new rules will enable the nightwatchmen to more effectively help law enforcement by thwarting burglaries and preventing assaults on the streets.<br \/>In old Turkish films the guards are portrayed as benevolent uncles patrolling the streets with a whistle between their lips, on the lookout for troublemakers.<br \/>But the opposition accused Erdogan of authoritarianism by setting up a loyal armed force.<br \/>\u201cThey are using the institution of nightwatchmen to set up a militia,\u201d Mahir Polat from the main opposition CHP party said on Tuesday, adding the police should be reinforced if needed.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISTANBUL: Turkey\u2019s parliament passed a controversial bill on Wednesday giving neighborhood patrols greater powers, with critics accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of wanting to build a loyal \u201cmilitia.\u201dThe new law gives \u201cnightwatchmen,\u201d who walk the streets at night to report burglaries and disturbances, almost the same powers as police.They will now be allowed to carry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}