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 … ]
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 … ]
CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu and MHP’s Bahçeli to meet on Wednesday before second round of voting on constitutional reform package Leaders of the opposition parties, Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have agreed to [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* At times, the current constitutional change process leads to harsh arguments. We should not be too hung up on the harshness of these arguments that sometimes go as far as physical clashes in [ More … ]
By: Nebi Miş* A debate on changing the political system and adopting a new one in a country is all about political crisis that a country has been facing with for a while. In other [ 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: İHSAN AKTAŞ* Turkish society experienced a political catastrophe on July 15, 2016. It was certainly the greatest and the most dangerous attempt of occupation in the modern Turkish history. In war, your enemies and [ More … ]
BY: Hasan Öztürk* It seems that according to some, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli turning the key once was not enough to open the lock. They are aware the lock has opened, yet [ More … ]
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will meet the leaders of two of Turkey’s opposition parties – the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) – at the Cankaya Palace Monday, their second meeting [ More … ]
– AK Party, CHP, and MHP show determination to preserve common ground on new constitution after defeated coup – Representatives of three of the main political parties represented in parliament gathered for the first time [ More … ]
By: Hasan Öztürk* The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) was there, the Republican’s People Party (CHP) was there and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) was also present. Among the parties represented in Parliament, the [ 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: 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: 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 … ]
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