Turkish police raided the Zaman media group headquarters in Istanbul on Dec. 14, as part of an operation anticipated for the last few days.
'Their plans to arrest me were ready' Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his speech on Dec. 12
The frequency of ups and downs in the talks between Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), aiming for a possible political settlement of the Kurdish problem, is on rise.
Last year, a week from today on Dec. 17, Istanbul prosecutors opened the biggest ever corruption probe in Turkey
Turkey has been under criticism for some time for becoming too involved in Middle Eastern affairs, thus distancing itself from the European Union and generally the Western world.
The Obama administration should know that slogans like 'Black lives matter' and protest slogans such as 'I Can’t Breath' echo all around the world
The 10 percent election threshold in Turkey is the highest such threshold in the world
The president has regularly stunned domestic and international public opinion with his off-the-beaten track remarks
PM Davutoğlu made two key remarks, among many others, during his speech to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Parti) parliamentary group