“We miss you,” said Turkish Industry and Business Association (TUSİAD) head Cansen Başaran-Symes, addressing board member Memduh Boydak as they were about to start TÜSİAD’s Higher Consultative Board meetings in Istanbul on Sept. 17.
Addressing a group of international ombudsmen in Ankara on Sept. 16, President Tayyip Erdoğan tried to assure Turkey’s “Western friends” that the country is a democracy, not an autocracy.
The head office of the Turkish weekly newspaper Nokta was raided by police on Sept. 14, upon a court order, to confiscate all issues of its last edition amid accusations that it “insulted” President Tayyip Erdoğan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan’s itinerary had been scheduled months before
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu did not ask for much actually while getting prepared for the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Parti) congress on Sept. 12
When Donald Tusk, the president of the European Union Commission, met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on Sept. 9 in Ankara, Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Ali Haydar Konca was not present.
Hürriyet is Turkey’s most influential mainstream newspaper. It is the elder sister of the Hürriyet Daily News, both being parts of the Doğan Media Group.
The number of military and police officers killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) between Sept. 6 and 8 surpassed 30.
It appears the mine explosion which blew up the armored patrol car in the mountainous Dağlıca region near Turkey’s border with Iraq on the afternoon of Sept. 6 could be a trap for a bigger ambush by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
