With a few weeks left for the formation of two new political parties by former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and former Economy Minister Ali Babacan, President and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has attacked against his former fellows over a discussion on Şehir (City) University.
The European Union Commission has begun a new term under the leadership of Ursula von der Leyen, the first woman holding the EU’s top job. Her closest company is Charles Michel, president of the EU Council, and both have already worked closely with Turkish officials in their previous positions.
There are two major environmental issues that all of Turkey has been discussing for a long while. The first concerns faith in the government’s Canal Istanbul project, and the second one is the environmental damage given by the thermal plants.
The gathering of NATO leaders in London on Dec. 3 and 4 will not just be a symbolic celebratory summit on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the North Atlantic alliance.
This column in early June had announced Turkey’s preparations for signing a maritime demarcation agreement with Libya in a bid to protect its legitimate rights in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and to disrupt the plans of Greece and Greek Cyprus to limit Turkey’s economic exclusive zone to around the Gulf of Antalya.
As was expected, Tuesday parliamentary group meetings of all the political parties have been taken up with an ongoing multiparty row over fake news on a secret visit by a prominent Republican People’s Party (CHP) figure – Muharrem İnce - to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to seek support for a potential leadership at the main opposition party.
Fake news penned by senior columnist Rahmi Turan last week has caused a major political debate in Ankara, particularly inside the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP).
The PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the YPG, are in a dispute over which group will have the most influence, according to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, “There is a conflict between the Qandil and Ferhat Abdi Şahin,” Soylu told Hürriyet Daily News.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump last week was important even though it failed to bring about concrete outcomes to the existing problems between the two nations.
