The provincial education director of the Mediterranean city of Antalya, speaking at the Antalya Chamber of School Shuttles, said the following: “Girls will not sit in the front seat of shuttles; they will take the back seats. The ones taking the front seats will absolutely be boys.”
Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has protected the Edirne governor who committed a hate crime and discriminated against a segment of population’s religion by saying, “The governor made a mistake. He acted emotionally.”
If we lived in a normal and civilized country, Edirne Governor Dursun Şahin would have already been removed.
The head of the Istanbul organization of the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) Aziz Babuşçu spoke to NTV on Nov. 14, saying the project concerning making Istanbul a finance center was proceeding.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has accused the three opposition parties of acting as they are favoring one oppressor over the other.
I have always said for a politician, it is never enough to keep track of what is going on in his or her own country.
Hüseyin Gülerce was one of the most important figures in the Fethullah Gülen Community. He quit daily Zaman because of the community-government fight and he recently gave a long interview to Ahmet Hakan at daily Hürriyet.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s “Unlicensed Palace” has become the focus of the Western media. It is very natural that this is so, because obviously they cannot fully comprehend the situation.
According to the Ankara representative of daily Yeni Şafak, Abdülkadir Selvi, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told the families of the victims who died in the coal mine accident in Ermenek: “I wish you had written a letter before and informed us of this in some way; we could have done what was necessary.”