Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has taken a strong stance against efforts of censors when a major Middle Eastern satellite network decided to stop airing Turkish soap operas.
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held its convention in early February to shape its cadres as the country heads for three elections in 2019. CHP head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has repeatedly said the party aims to win the mayoralties of the six biggest provinces, including Istanbul, Ankara and İzmir, in the local elections scheduled one year from now.
The head of Turkey’s top official religious body, the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has recently been changed by the government, but it seems that the change has not had any effect on the institution’s anti-secularism stance.
The debate over the exclusion of the theory of evolution from the curriculum in Turkey has now reached a new level, thanks to a man heading the board in charge of overseeing and approving all textbooks and educational materials used in Turkish schools.
Turkish society is divided right down the middle as the country heads to a referendum on April 16 to decide on whether to replace the current parliamentary system with one with an executive presidency. According to the latest polls, half of the voters are on the “yes” front, while the other half is firmly “no,” with tensions between the two camps rising every day
Consistency in political arguments has not been a virtue of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) politics.
When the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the government came up with the idea of a swift constitutional change to give more power (or all the power) to the president in the wake of the July 15 failed coup, they talked about the problems of holding a referendum under a state of emergency and said that it would not be an option.
“They have not been jailed for journalistic work.” This phrase has been the defense of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling AKP whenever Turkey is criticized for the high number of journalists who have been detained, arrested or convicted in the country
At a time when the world is mourning the massacre of 49 people at a gay night club in Orlando, a new massacre is being brewed by Islamists and a far-right nationalist group in Istanbul
