Days before the country’s first popular election for the presidency, Erdoğan’s speeches increasingly include references to national origins and religious beliefs
The judiciary should neither be a tool of pressure on society, nor of revenge; Turkey needs justice for all – immediately.
The State Audit Board (DDK) released its report July 15 on the killing of 35 people in Sivas on July 2, 1993 when thousands of angry protesters set a hotel on fire.
It seems like the “new Turkey” under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), who know no limits when it comes to construction, is determined to leave no green areas untouched.
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, the joint presidential candidate of the CHP and the CHP, has made a move to break the ice with the Alevi community
İhsanoğlu will be walking on thin ice when trying to convince Alevis and secular CHP voters, and have a foot on the conservative constituency
Now Kılıçdaroğlu rolls the dice again, this time in a direct race against Erdoğan, who is expected to run for presidency
The fall of Mosul into the hands of Islamist militants, led by the ISIL, has the potential to ignite a region-wide war, with the PKK announcing that its militants are ready to fight the Islamists
The ruling party is dedicated to make the presidential election in August, after which the country will have its first president elected by the public; more than an election for a new president
