President Abdullah Gül denied claims in one national newspaper yesterday, July 17, that he was so sidelined in the Justice and Development Party (AKP) – of which together with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Bülent Arınç, he was one of the three founders – that he might continue politics in a new party.
If someone from the outside of Turkey wonders what’s going on in Turkey, they might easily be fooled that the country is very much like an Iron Curtain country during the times of the Cold War.
Forty years after he went missing, the remains of a Greek Cypriot was finally laid to rest. This was the first-ever funeral held in northern Cyprus for a Greek Cypriot missing person
A small girl, about eight-nine years old approached the windshield of the car at the corner less than 100 meters away from Door Number 5 of the Presidential Palace.
In the allegiant media, for some time, there has been a new rhetoric: “New Turkey, new leader…”
Contrary to what is generally believed Turkey does not have an administration problem. Totalitarian, often bordering dictatorship, most of the time officiously intervening in the private sphere, but there has always been a strong government in Ankara over the past decade or so.
Turkish Cypriot negotiator Kudret Özersay has given up hopes of a resolution on Cyprus anytime soon unless the current skidding stops
It must have been a very difficult decision to make. The presidency of the Turkish Republic must have been a very attractive post for a politician
External as well as internal factors are leading to the redistribution of cards, the redrawing of borders in the region
