The profiles of the perpetrators of the Paris attack and of the Istanbul attack are completely different.
I was at a lunch with the Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, Bert Koenders, along with two colleagues, at the residence of the Dutch Ambassador to Turkey, Ron Keller, when news broke about the detention of Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink in Diyarbakır.
As 2014 was the year of presidential and local elections, 2015 will be the year of parliamentary elections, as the last chain of three polls that have overhauled the entire Turkish political system
The year 2014 could be summarized as the year of elections for Turkey that resulted in the overall change in the political system with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan becoming the first president elected through popular vote, while Ahmet Davutoğlu took over the chairmanship of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Prime Ministry.
A parliamentary commission tasked with the inquiry into corruption claims against four former ministers postponed on Dec. 22 a key vote on whether they should be tried at the Supreme Council.
The infamous Ergenekon case was launched in May 2007, after the police found 27 grenades in a suburb of Istanbul.
The year-long fight between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Fethullah Gülen community entered a new phase after the detentions of daily Zaman editor-in-chief Ekrem Dumanlı
A surprising Russian proposal of constructing a new natural gas pipeline from Russia to Europe via Turkey in order to bypass both Ukraine and Bulgaria is still one of leading issues being discussed in the relevant capitals
The World Bank’s office in Turkey is set to hold an important conference today in Istanbul, on the occasion of the launch of a new book analyzing Turkish economic and social development since the 1980s under the title of “Turkey’s Transitions: Integration, Inclusion, Institutions.”
