After more than two and a half months, the Turkish Parliament will resume its works in the legislative year starting from Oct. 1. The last two years could be described as the least active period for the Turkish parliament whose works have been suspended due to the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2018 and local elections in 2019. It will, therefore, deal with many pending key issues, but the priority seems to be given to the judicial reform package.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has concluded his week-long trip to New York where he attended the 74th United Nations General Assembly and held bilateral meetings with many world leaders.
The front pages of many of yesterday’s newspapers and around more than a dozen columnists have preferred to jump in the middle of a political discussion between the ruling and opposition parties over the IMF’s surveillance visit to Turkey last week.
Leaders from more than 190 countries will be in New York this week to attend the 74th U.N. General Assembly which will stage important global summits on climate change, universal health care, nuclear nonproliferation, and sustainable development chaired by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
European heavyweights France and Germany along with the United Nations and the World Bank have proposed a special “financial package” to Turkey in return for its ratification of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
The presidents of Turkey, Russia and Iran held the fifth Astana Process summit in Ankara on Sept. 16. Apart from the announcement on the removal of the remaining obstacles before the establishment of the Constitutional Committee, the latest summit did not yield any other concrete result.
On Sept. 15, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced that the delivery of the second battery of the S-400 air defense systems from Russia was completed. The components of the first and second battery are now deployed at Mürted Air Base near Ankara. The next stage stipulates the installation of these anti-ballistic missiles.
In the past couple of weeks, some important developments have occurred on justice-related matters.
Ties between Turkey and the United States have for a very long time observed a messy picture. Today, they sound much more complicated because of inconsistencies both sides are showing in various dimensions in regards to their bilateral relationship.
