Ahmet Davutoglu quits after the party decided to send him to the disciplinary board, says will set up a new political movement. Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has announced his resignation from Turkey’s ruling [ More … ]
AK Party candidates win 44.42 pct of all votes in local elections Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party led the weekend local elections, capturing 15 metropolitan municipalities and 24 cities, according to early results [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Founding anniversary commemoration ceremonies and activities are not only a means of a celebratory cheer and joy in the AK Party, but also of self-criticism and self-consciousness. The AK Party continues to play [ More … ]
Ankara to deploy extra troops to Qatar as Kuwait seeks to broker deal Turkey on Wednesday threw its weight behind its ally Qatar, fast-tracking plans to deploy extra Turkish troops to the Qatar as Arab [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) third extraordinary congress is going to be held tomorrow. Although the AK Party, first established 16 years ago, held no extraordinary congress in its first 14 [ More … ]
The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) third extraordinary congress is being held in Ankara today as President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the founder of the AK Party, is set to be chosen as chairman of [ More … ]
President Erdoğan will be reunited with his party and be chairman of the AK Party once again with the congress held today The Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) third Extraordinary Congress is being held [ More … ]
A Constitutional referendum is likely to be held sometime between April 1 and April 20, says Turkey’s Yıldırım, adding that the change has been submitted to President Erdoğan Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said that [ More … ]
Interview with Fevzi Şanverdi* MİDDLE EAST OBSERVER STAFF INTERVIEW FEVZI ŞANVERDI 1.) What are your views on the political approach of the AKP governments towards the Middle East? As of 2003, when the AK Party [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* At times, the current constitutional change process leads to harsh arguments. We should not be too hung up on the harshness of these arguments that sometimes go as far as physical clashes in [ More … ]
The Turkish parliament adopted the fifth article of the new constitutional reform package, amid a brawl amongst deputies after the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) attacked deputies of ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) Party. [ More … ]
By: Yasin Aktay* The proposal for the Constitution change, which will bring the most radical change in Turkey’s administration system to date, will start to be discussed in the Parliamentary General Assembly as of today. During [ More … ]
By: Nebi Miş* A debate on changing the political system and adopting a new one in a country is all about political crisis that a country has been facing with for a while. In other [ More … ]
BY: İHSAN AKTAŞ* Turkish society experienced a political catastrophe on July 15, 2016. It was certainly the greatest and the most dangerous attempt of occupation in the modern Turkish history. In war, your enemies and [ More … ]
BY: Hasan Öztürk* It seems that according to some, Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli turning the key once was not enough to open the lock. They are aware the lock has opened, yet [ More … ]
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