Dr Said Elhaj* Millions of Turkish voters are heading to the polls on June 24 to take part in the early presidential and parliamentary elections which are viewed as the most important, sensitive and complicated [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has shaped the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) new central executive body, which held its first meeting under Erdoğan’s leadership as AKP chairman on May 29 amid expectations that [ More … ]
Turkish President says he will reconsider, reevaluate party structuring after serious discussions Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has refuted claims regarding possible Cabinet reshuffle in the government. Talking to media Wednesday before leaving for Russia [ More … ]
The countdown starts for the Sunday’s key referendum to decide on whether to change the constitution for an executive presidency with a neck to neck race between “nay” and “yea” sayers, but undecided voters may [ More … ]
Constitutional changes concerning the call for a presidential system have been on the AK Party’s political agenda since President Erdogan was elected to his post in August 2014. Turkey’s ruling party has recently received a major [ More … ]
By: Dr. Yasin Aktay* Everyone would recall the thousands in Tahrir Square in January 2011, protesting Mubarak’s decades long regime in Egypt. The initial reaction of Westerners was to find out the religious or ethnic [ More … ]
– Turkish president says names of martyrs who fought coup attempt will be remembered ‘in golden letters’ – The huge rally to mark the defeat of the July 15 attempted coup was another blow for [ More … ]
– ‘Democracy and Martyrs’ rally set to be held on Sunday, culminating weeks of rallies since last month’s defeated coup – Turkey’s main opposition party leader confirmed Friday that he will attend a massive democracy [ More … ]
By: Merve Şebnem* Turkish people haven’t seen any merciful reactions from Amnesty International for the Turkish civilians who lost their lives or were severely wounded by the Gülenist coup plotters Amnesty International, a so-called non-governmental [ More … ]
Turkish members of the US commander Campbell-led group that organized a coup attempt in Turkey have been arrested in Dubai According to the Turkish newspaper Yenisafak, Following the detention of two high-ranking Turkish soldiers on [ More … ]
By: Ismail kilicarslan * Let me start by saying this much: I think that we have sufficient evidence that this coup attempt is “unsuccessful”. Of course, we will still maintain a continuous and unending state [ More … ]
By: Hilal Kaplan* The following words, uttered during a closed-door conversation between Fethullah Gülen and his followers, were broadcast in 1999 on the Turkish television channel ATV. “Specifically, the presence of our friends is the [ More … ]
By: Hatice Karahan* Using an image of our glorious flag surrounded with barbed wire and writing the heading “once upon a time in democracy,” Der Spiegel is furiously continuing its anti-Turkey propagation. Der Spiegel is not [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited leaders of some of Turkey’s political parties to the presidential palace in Ankara to thank them for their stance against the coup attempt on July 15. The Turkish leader [ More … ]
By: Dr. Said al-Haj* Turkey will perpetuate the memory of the fifteenth of July, 2016 as a milestone station in its modern history. The foiling of the coup attempt in its first wave, at least, [ More … ]
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