TURKEY’S parliament voted to impose a state of emergency and adopt special government powers yesterday, following last Friday’s botched military coup.

With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party holding a 317-seat majority in the 550-seat parliament, the 365-115 result was almost a forgone conclusion.

Mr Erdogan said the state of emergency would give the government the tools to rid the military of the “virus” of subversion.

Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said he hoped the state of emergency would be short-lived.

“We will use it in a fashion closer to our allies like France and others,” he said.

The French parliament voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to extend its own state of emergency — in force since last November’s Paris terrorist attacks — by a further six months in the wake of the Nice lorry attack.

The number arrested in connection with the coup was close to 10,000 yesterday, with a further 60,000 dismissed from government and education posts.

Mr Simsek said the sackings would not “limit state capacity” as the country had over three million civil servants, four million other public-sector employees and some one million teachers.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the emergency powers should not remain in force any longer than “absolutely necessary.”

And UN envoy Espen Barth Eide suggested that the aftermath of the coup could affect reunification talks in Cyprus.

But Mr Erdogan drew praise from US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an incendiary interview in yesterday’s New York Times.

“I give great credit to him for being able to turn that around,” Mr Trump said of the failed coup. “Some people say that it was staged, you know that. I don’t think so.”

Mr Trump refused to ape Secretary of State John Kerry’s call on Mr Erdogan to follow the rule of law, saying: “When the world sees how bad the United States is and we start talking about civil liberties, I don’t think we are a very good messenger.”

Meanwhile, the electricity supply had still not been restored at Incirlik air base, where the US air force maintains an arsenal of some 50 nuclear bombs.