The main question of the June 7 general election was whether the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) could exceed the 10 percent threshold and get into parliament
White scenarios are almost clear as Turkey has only six days left until the crucial Nov. 1 re-elections, amid an ongoing decision-making process to bring an end to the Syrian civil war and its consequential immigrant crisis, which has started to hit the European Union
Well, it depends on who you ask.
It is true that there is mistrust. The EU wants to be sure that Turkey will keep its promise to host Syrian refugees trying to go to Europe until a political settlement is reached in Syria; Turkey, meanwhile, does not want to experience the same frustration that it had in 2004 when the EU did not keep its Cyprus referendum promise
The Turkish government has agreed on a Syrian formula which includes Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the condition that it will end with him stepping down, according to a Turkish source
It was Oct. 15, three days before her visit to Turkey on Oct. 18, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would tell Turkish leaders not to tie the measures needed to be taken to stop the Syrian refugee influx to the country’s future membership in the European Union.
The legal restrictions imposed on the media over news of the Oct. 10 Ankara suicide bombings - in which the number of deaths hit 102 on Oct. 16 (with many heavily wounded victims still in hospital) - did not work well this time
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has decided to pay an unusual visit to Turkey, set for Oct. 18. The visit will come just two weeks before her host’s key snap election on Nov. 1.
Hours after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu pointed at the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the prime suspect in the Ankara twin bombings on Oct. 10 which claimed the lives of at least 97 people (some who were heavily wounded are still in critical condition) the United States started on Oct. 12 to air drop 27 container loads of weaponry to the armed forces of the Syrian-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) to be used in the next advance on the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa in Syr
