Just as people began to talk about a power struggle between President Erdoğan and PM Davutoğlu in the final days of 2014, Erdoğan finished the debate like Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian knot
Both Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is focused on the Kurdish problem, are giving messages one after another these days about an upswing in talks amid reports of escalated tension in the predominantly Kurdish east and southeast of the country.
Everything has started to unfold at a faster pace in Turkey’s Kurdish peace bid, and in an extremely symbolic manner.
Going back to the Arabic script seems neither possible nor practical since the literacy rate in today’s Turkey is above 99 percent. It is not possible to reset it
The voting on four ex-ministers of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government was to take place on Dec. 22.
'Is that only two articles and a news item that you have against me?' Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of daily Zaman asked the judge. 'Yes,' answered the latter
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is known as one of the toughest leaders on earth calls, him a “tough man.”
When President Vikto Yanukovych of Ukraine fled his capital Kiev on Feb. 21, 2014, after the Maidan protests, very few could have predicted that it would unfold into a second Cold War between Moscow and the West.
Turkish President Erdoğan has been blasting European institutions, the EU and others over their criticism of media freedom, judicial independence and the general quality of democracy here.
