Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on April 13 that theTurkish security forces had killed 362 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants since July 2015 with its cross-border artillery fire against targets in Syria
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) in Turkey has been embroiled in serious turbulence since the Nov. 1, 2015 election, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) managed to regain its parliamentary majority to form a single party government
The “pervert” debate between Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has finally faded out after Erdoğan said he would no longer count Kılıçdaroğlu as a political counterpart, with the latter providing no reply
A day after U.S. Ambassador to Ankara John Bass told reporters on April 7 that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) should lay down arms, he was responded to by a major PKK figure, who said the U.S. should instead put pressure on Turkey
Political language in Turkey is degenerating as political polarization increases. The ongoing “pervert” debate is an embarrassing example of this
In times of war, it is not only lives and the truth that are lost, but also the rights of the people
As the fierce 7-month-long fight between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) with its demands of self-rule leaves more bodies behind, the political polarization around it also escalates to unprecedented levels
The first group of 202 immigrants, who had crossed illegally to the Greek islands after March 20, were sent back to Turkey on April 4, as scheduled in the agreement reached on March 18 between Ankara and the European Union
Shortly after the U.S. President Barack Obama told reporters that he informed Turkish President Erdoğan that the Turkish government’s “approach toward the press is one that could lead Turkey down a path that would be very troubling,” Erdoğan said the issue did not come up during their 50-minute one-on-one meet on March 31, in Washington D.C