İbrahim Kalın, the president’s adviser and spokesperson, confirmed international press reports of a temporary de-escalation in the eastern Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece during a televised interview on July 28.
The last time Turkey’s oldest political party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), was in the power was between 1995 and 1996 for 128 days in a small part of a coalition with the True Path Party (DYP).
July 24 has always marked a very important day in Turkish history. On that day in 1923, Turkey signed the Lausanne Peace Treaty with a number of world powers, including the British Empire,
It was not surprising to hear from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, during a long speech about the two years of his rule as executive president, that his government’s priority was and will be the national security of Turkey inside and outside the country’s borders.
A process to formally convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque was realized on July 10 after a presidential decree was published in the Official Gazette, overriding a government decision from 1934 that converted the historical site into a museum.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had vowed that he has no excuses for errors and deficiencies in running his executive job when he was sworn in as a president with new powers on July 9, 2018.
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, recently paid an important visit to the Turkish capital to hold talks with Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Defense Minister Hulusi Akar.
The past three weeks were very important in terms of Turkey’s political and military engagement in Libya. It started with the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj’s visit to Turkey on June 12, when he held talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other Turkish officials.
Like elsewhere in the world, Turkey’s top problem is the worsening economy, along with the high cost of living and rising unemployment, particularly amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Credible public opinion surveys openly broach this fact, as more than 60 percent of respondents describe the economy as being bad or very bad.
