Turkeys state of emergency that was imposed after the failed 2016 coup came to an end on Thursday but the government is set to introduce new anti-terrorism laws, which the opposition insists are just as oppressive as the emergency powers they will replace. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the state of emergency on July 20, 2016, five days after warplanes bombed Ankara and bloody clashes broke out in Istanbul in a doomed putsch bid that claimed 249 lives. The measure, which normally lasts three months but was extended seven times, ended at 1:00 am on Thursday, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, after the government decided not to ask that it be extended for an eighth time.  Turkey has arrested over 75,000 people for alleged links to Fethullah Gulen, the US-based preacher blamed for the coup. It has also apprehended Kurdish activists and leftists. During last months presidential election campaign, which he won, Erdogan pledged that the state of emergency would end.  But the opposition has been angered by the governments submission of new legislation to parliament that apparently seeks to formalize some of the harshest aspects of the emergency. The main opposition Republican Peoples Party (CHP) said the bill, dubbed "anti-terror" legislation, would amount to a state of emergency on their own. "With this bill, with the measures in this text, the state of emergency will not be extended for three months, but for three years," said the head of the CHPs parliamentary faction, Ozgur Ozel. "They make it look like they are lifting the emergency but in fact they are continuing it," he added. Under the proposed legislation, the authorities will retain for three more years the power to sack civil servants deemed linked to "terror" groups, retaining a key power of the state of emergency. Protests and gatherings will be banned in open public areas after sunset, although they can be authorized until midnight if they do not disturb the public order. Local authorities will be able to prohibit individuals from entering or leaving a defined area for 15 days on security grounds. And a suspect can be held without charge for 48 hours or up to four days in the case of multiple offenses. This period can be extended up to twice if there is difficulty in collecting evidence or if the case is deemed to be particularly voluminous.