Following a meeting with President Tayyip Erdoğan on May 5 that lasted 1 hour 40 minutes, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is taking the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) to an emergency congress on May 22, saying he will not put his name forward as a leadership candidate
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu had been waiting for days for this good news from the European Union about visa-free travel for Turkish citizens
Parliament’s Constitution Commission approved a draft bill on May 2 to lift the immunities of more than 130 MPs who are under legal investigation, in order to let the courts try them
Most countries, especially in the West, had no awareness of a terrorism threat on their territory until al-Qaeda’s shocking acts on Sept. 11, 2001
Here is a brief list of what happened as May Day began in Turkey: In the Syrian border province of Gaziantep, a car bomb went off in front of the main police station, killing two police officers. The city was recently visited by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Council President Donald Tusk, who praised its treatment of migrants
In two separate speeches delivered on April 28, Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan strongly criticized the Islamic world for failure in a number of areas
A few hours after Turkey’s European Union Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkır said the government could fulfil all necessary benchmarks by May 2 for visa-free travel for Turkish citizens within the EU, the parliament in Ankara had to take a two-day recess due to escalating tension among deputies
There are three important thresholds or tests ahead of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in the next two months which can be decisive for Turkey in closing the gap with the West
Reactions poured in on April 26 after a statement by Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman late on April 25, in which he said he believed secularism should not be included in the new constitution, which is still being drafted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti)
