On Sept. 28 agencies reported that the last two hospitals serving in the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo were bombed by Syrian or Russian planes
Moody’s decreased Turkey’s credit rating to “junk” level with a decision late on Sept. 23, despite its former decision after the bloody coup attempt of July 15 in Turkey that it would wait and see the developments for three months before a final decision.
The cliché used in such cases is usually “the rise and fall.” However this falls short in the case of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is now one of two major problems between Turkey and the U.S., under the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) rule in Turkey, because the rise of Gülen and his network within the Turkish state apparatus started long before the AK Parti came to power in the 2002 elections
Turkey’s social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) filed a complaint to the Constitutional Court on Sept. 23 requesting the annulment of a number of articles of government decrees on the suspension and dismissal of public officials in the ongoing state of emergency
“The Americans will always do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) has reportedly canceled all local meetings and ceremonies with speakers other than party officials or heads of provincial party offices, according to media reports on Sept. 21
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan called on all countries for joint action on terrorism
The recent assault on a woman traveling on a public bus in Istanbul has triggered political and legal steps to bring stricter measures to target violence against women
It was none other than U.S. President Barack Obama who said in 2012 that it was a “red line” for him if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against rebels in the civil war that started in 2011
