Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek said on Oct. 5 that new tax incomes will be spent on buying new weapons systems.
The above photo, showing Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek shaking hands with President Tayyip Erdoğan before Erdoğan left for Tehran, was posted on Twitter on Oct. 4 by Gökçek’s director for public transportation
In the summer of 1991 I was running after a news story in the north of Iraq, during the first Gulf War, when I received a warning from a British army officer based at the Sirseng air strip near the summer home of Saddam Hussein.
This photo was taken in the office of Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman at around 4 p.m. on Oct. 1, right after the new legislative term was opened with a customary speech at parliament from President Tayyip Erdoğan.
The Catalan referendum on Oct. 1 has dominated the news as the Spanish government did not refrain from using force against peaceful demonstrators to stop it, which would’ve triggered a strong reaction from the European Union had it happened elsewhere.
One of the biggest recent surprises - which are becoming increasingly frequent from President Tayyip Erdoğan on policy changes – came when he announced on Sept. 26 that a new model would be introduced for Turkey’s much-debated higher education system.
Turkey, Iraq and Iran begin today, Sept. 29, a kind of siege around the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), after its leader Masoud Barzani opted to go ahead with the Sept. 25 referendum on separating the region from the rest of Iraq as an independent state.
Many in the Turkish media are happy to slam Israel and the U.S. over support for the Kurdish independence referendum, which would divide Iraq and have the potential to do the same to Turkey, but very little is said on Russia’s stance.
“We never thought Barzani would make such a grave mistake. It appears we were wrong,” Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 26
