Are President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at loggerheads?
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, who says he wants the new constitution to “brew a little,” recently met his party’s constitution writing commission and asked it to produce a text that would not allow any “tutelage” and would contain all kinds of freedoms
“Coward, villain, utterly dark, ignorant, disgusting, traitor, lumpen, tool of the terror organization, immoral, leftover pro-mandate, spoiled soul.”
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev have just issued a joint declaration on “Islamic convergence.”
An Order of State of the Republic of Turkey was given to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on April 13. The phrase “throwing a sprat to catch a mackerel” springs to mind, but as far as we know Salman is not even offering the bone of the mackerel
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is very much like a Teflon pan: Nothing sticks to it
Aydın Doğan, the honorary chairman of the Doğan Group, and Ersin Özince, the head of the İş Bank executive committee, have allegedly formed an “organized crime body” to carry out certain operations of Petrol Ofisi, a fuel distributor once owned by Doğan Holding before all of its shares were sold to Austria’s OMV in 2010
In the ongoing Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) case being heard in Istanbul, the suspect code named “Ebu Hanzala” - alleged to be one of the top leaders of the group in Turkey - and one of the six people tried along with him, were released by the court pending trial
It was Thursday this week that all communication tools were full of the same information. It was in all social media, message groups and email chains
MEHMET Y. YILMAZ
