Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has thrown a new curveball by explicitly expressing his opposition to the resignation of Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), from his post to run for parliament.
Despite denials from both the presidency and the office of the prime minister, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu are far from creating the harmony and synergy that they were hoping for
One of the most important United Nations meetings on humanitarian action is set to be held in Istanbul in May next year under the title of “World Humanitarian Summit,” marking a first of its kind.
On June 7, 2015, some 54 million Turkish people will cast their votes to elect their parliamentary representative and to elect the new government.
With the fatal Charlie Hebdo attack boosting and expanding the scope of ongoing discussions about growing Islamophobia on the European continent, we have started to hear more of a religious-based rhetoric from senior Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.
On Jan. 20, parliament voted on whether to send four former ministers to the Supreme Council to be put on trial on charges of corruption and graft.
A first was marked on Jan. 19, as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan convened the cabinet at the new presidential palace, signaling a de facto change in the country’s administrative system to the advantage of the elected head of the nation.
Last week’s unfortunate Paris attacks that left 17 people dead, including famous French cartoonists of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, continue to occupy the national and international media.
Comparing the post-Paris process with the post 9/11 attacks, however, we see a completely different Turkey
