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Protesters that gathered on Saturday near Ankara’s main train station for a peaceful rally organized by several workers’ unions and other groups for increased democracy and an end to the violence between the Kurdish rebels and Turkey’s forces witnessed violence Read more
Tension between political parties has been increasing ahead of the November 1 elections and the decision on Saturday by the country’s independent Supreme Election Board (YSK) to reject requests of some local election boards from districts in the eastern and Read more
The opening session of the Turkish parliament’s legislative year by president Erdogan was marked by protests from some opposition members of parliament claiming that he had been biased during last June parliamentary elections, in addition to the fact that the Read more
Turkish acting Prime Minister and leader of the AK Party led preliminary talks with main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in an attempt to test water for the forming of a coalition government since the June 7 elections which left Read more
The new members of the Turkish parliament met on Tuesday, two weeks after the elections, at the oath-taking ceremony marking the beginning of a new political tussle in the search for the establishment of a coalition government. None of the Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday urged political parties to fast-track the formation of a new cabinet, probably a coalition, following the June 7 parliamentary elections which saw the ruling party AKP lose its majority. Speaking at a graduation Read more
President Erdoğan has attacked opposition parties ahead of the parliamentary elections on Sunday in a bid to lure votes for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). He alleged that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) “is controlled from the mountain;” Read more