Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called on world leaders to accept the turkish plan for a safe zone inside Syria, only days before it hosts the G20 summit. Speaking to a group of businessmen in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said [ More … ]
Turkey on Tuesday rejected the European Union’s report criticising the state of human rights and media freedom in the country. Some of the report’s observations are “unfair and even partly disproportionate, and ignore the freedom-security [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays tribute to all the victims of the military coup in Egypt. On his desk, in his office in Ankara, he has a statue with the symbol for the Rabaa [ More … ]
Turkey’s new cabinet will bear the stamp of President Tayyip Erdogan with a slew of loyal advisors set for ministerial posts, senior officials said on Tuesday, writes AFP. The AKP’s dramatic electoral comeback on Sunday, was a [ More … ]
At least 35 people, including senior bureaucrats and police officers, have been detained by Turkish police,  in the western province of Izmir. The operation aim to target supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan’s enemy, Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. The arrests came [ More … ]
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters had “shown that they prefer action and development to controversy”. The Justice and Development Party (AK party) is set to lead Turkey alone once again. With almost all votes [ More … ]
Turks have voted in parliamentary polls for the second time in five months, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party tries to regain its majority, after attempts to form a coalition government after elections in [ More … ]
There are several reports of a high turnout, amid speculation that this could be damaging for the AKP. Aykan Erdemir a former MP for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) reckons turn up is up June’s election [ More … ]
Voters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir turned out in droves on Sunday, queuing up in the shadow of armoured police vehicles to cast their ballots against what many said was state intimidation, [ More … ]
Turkey holds snap parliamentary elections on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries, that could profoundly impact the divided country’s trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. Polls that could end more than a decade of single-party [ More … ]
The latest American plans to aid Syrian fighters battling the Islamic State hit an obstacle as Turkish officials summoned the American ambassador to express concern that the United States was providing new support to Kurdish [ More … ]
Aside from a carefully worded statement urging unity, President Tayyip Erdogan was unusually quiet after Turkey’s worst ever bomb attack, writes Reuters in an analysis. “Modern Turkey’s most divisive leader has in the past had [ More … ]
Thousands of mourner gathered in Turkey today to show their respect for the victims of the twin bombing in Ankara on Saturday morning. “We lost many beautiful people,†Ahmet said as tearful eulogies were given [ More … ]
There is still no claims of responsibility for the attack in the Turkish capital Ankara, that left nearly 100 protestors dead. Prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, exposing a mosaic of domestic political perils, said Islamic State, [ More … ]
Moments of one of the blasts. Twin explosions outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday morning targeted hundreds of people who had gathered to protest against violence between authorities and the Kurdish militant group, the [ More … ]
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