Turkey’s large pro-government press cohort on Monday was on hand to applaud the weekend’s purge of over 18,000 public workers by executive decree under the state of emergency.

The decree would be the last before Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was sworn in as the first president in the new system, under which he will have the power to issue decrees whether or not a state of emergency is in place.

The Islamist, pro-Erdoğan Yeni Şafak newspaper praised the “Great cleansing in two years” that has seen over 100,000 public workers dismissed since the state of emergency was introduced shortly after the failed coup attempt in July 2016.

The Türkiye newspaper meanwhile reported on a rail disaster that claimed dozens of lives when a train was derailed in Turkey’s north western province of Tekirdağ.

The government issued a media ban on Sunday night preventing coverage of the disaster, in which official reports state at least 73 were injured.

Türkiye’s report on the crash followed the official line, which said it had been an accident caused by floods that washed the earth away from the underneath the tracks.

Secularist newspaper Cumhuriyet on Tuesday contradicted this line, expressing the disbelief that the crash had been a simple accident held by many citizens who had seen images of the terrible condition of the tracks on social media.

The front-page news called the disaster the “heavy price of negligence,” stating that it had been the result of several moves by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, including the scrapping of officials assigned to inspect the tracks, that had caused it.

This was a “painful beginning” to the new executive presidential system of government that had been inaugurated when Erdoğan was sworn in on Monday, said Cumhuriyet, another marked departure from the triumphant headlines on the majority of front pages on Tuesday.

The wide-circulation daily Hürriyet’s echoed the words of Erdoğan in his inaugural speech, in which he played on the theme of the presidential system as a “new beginning” for the 95-year-old Republic of Turkey, but also, striking a prominent nationalist chord, in the 2000 years of history of the Turkic peoples.

Also prominent on Tuesday’s front pages was Erdoğan’s choice of a new cabinet, which features his son-in-law Berat Albayrak as the Minister of the Treasury and Finance, loyal followers of Erdoğan’s in other key positions, and a range of business owners to head up other ministries.

Sabah’s headline was emblematic of the reaction from the majority of newspapers, trumpeting Turkey’s “strong president,” who had just been handed vastly enhanced authority over the governance of the country.

The headline piece on Wednesday for Vatan, a pro-government daily, focused on another man whose powers have been on the rise in recent years in Turkey – Hulusi Akar, the four-star general and chief of staff during the July 2016 coup attempt who was announced as the new Minister of Defence on Monday.

The newspaper noted that Akar was the first officer in 58 years to take on a ministerial role, since Cemal Gürsel became Prime Minister in 1960.

This was again in the aftermath of a plot against the government, in this case the successful 1960 coup that brought down Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. Gürsel, the commander of the army at the time, was named as the commander in chief, head of state, prime minister, and minister of defence the day after the coup, serving as the prime minister for a year and president for almost six.

With the new system barely in place, other pro-government newspapers were already rushing to declare its merits, with Sabah and Akşam admiring its “speed and power.”

Takvim newspaper, meanwhile, was gushing over the “super” team assembled on Erdoğan’s cabinet, seeming particularly enthused by agriculture minister Bekir Pakdemirli’s ability to fly a plane and foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s golf ability.

The secularist newspaper BirGün was less impressed, declaring that this was “not a cabinet, but a family firm,” and criticising its ties to the president.

“These are not minsters, but a new type of civil servants,” BirGün quoted one academic as saying, adding that they will not be tied to ministerial committee’s but to the president’s decisions.

Thursday’s headlines in several government-friendly headlines carried a remark by Erdoğan on his determination to bring the country’s interest and inflation rates under control. “I’m sure that not only the state banks, but private banks too will take responsibility,” he said.

While pro-government press reported on these statements and again on the strengths of Erdoğan’s new cabinet, all accompanied by an image of the president clasping hands with his U.S. president Donald Trump at the NATO summit in Brussels, they chose to ignore the culmination of a four-year investigation into the country’s worst ever mining disaster.

Over 300 miners were killed in a mine in the town of Soma in west Turkey when a fire started in the pit. Since the day of the disaster, numerous reports of extremely poor working conditions and health and safety standards emerged from the mine, leaving the families seeking justice from its owners.

The verdict in the case came on Wednesday, with the decision to downgrade the charges against mine owner Can Gürkan to conscious negligence and his 15-year sentence described by Cumhuriyet as a terrible blow to the miner’s families.

BirGün’s report identified the mine’s “real owner” as Soma Holdings chairman Alp Gürkan, who escaped without a sentence, running the story under the headline “first the miners, and now justice has died.”

Pro-government newspapers were far quicker to applaud another judicial decision in their headlines on Friday, the day after courts hit 72 soldiers involved in the July 2016 coup attempt with life sentences.

On Jul. 15, the night of the coup attempt, the 72 had blocked one of Istanbul’s bridges spanning the Bosphorus, leading to confrontations with civilians in which dozens died. The bridge was later renamed The July 15th Martyrs Bridge after the hundreds killed by coup plotters across Turkey.

“Life sentences rain down on traitors on the bridge,” ran Sabah on a front page that also featured significant comments from Erdoğan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak, the new finance and treasury minister.

Albayrak’s comments, which likely aim to soothe investors’ fears after a week of currency and stock market losses, promised to make the fight against inflation a priority and to bring it down to single figures.

Critical outlets were far from convinced on the economic front, with Cumhuriyet’s front page describing a crisis of confidence among investors that “Albayrak’s words on the central bank’s independence did not affect.”

The front page featured a graphic of the lira’s decline since January from around 3.8 to the dollar to a record low of 4.97 to the dollar this month under the heading “foreigners flee.”