The Turkish people and political parties who defied the July 15 coup attempt set “an example to people around the world, striving for freedom to live in peace and dignity,” according to the United Nations’ undersecretary-general
According to a state of emergency decree published in the Turkish Official Gazette on Sept. 1, more than 40,000 public employees were dismissed from office over suspected links to the Gülenist network, which the government says was behind the bloody coup attempt of July 15
A number of military officers who had already been arrested over the bloody coup attempt of July 15 have also been subject to an investigation over the illegal recording of a secret March 2014 meeting on Syria in the office of then-Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, which was leaked to the media and triggered a major scandal, ranking security sources have told the Hürriyet Daily News.
First, a short story taught in diplomacy, intelligence and management academies around the world, reflecting the tense situation in Syria
How the government decides which public servants should be suspended or sacked over suspected Gülenist links is now a frequently asked question both inside and outside of Turkey
It was The New York Times that questioned the weird U.S. picture in Syria, as if the CIA was supporting the Turkey-backed Free Syria Army (FSA) rebels against the Pentagon-backed Democratic Union Party (PYD) rebels, which Turkey sees as the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım vowed on Aug. 26 that Turkey is now in an “all-out war” against terrorism
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkey’s social democratic main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader, escaped an assassination attempt on Aug. 25 in the northeastern province of Artvin, near the Georgian border
At 04.00 on Aug. 24, Turkish artillery started to pound Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in and around the Syria border town of Jarablus
