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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected Wednesday for the seventh time leader of the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party in the build-up to 2023 elections. Erdogan was nominated the party top leaders for the seventh congress of the Read more
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held Wednesday talks with leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) to tie an alliance for 2019 elections in hope for his re-election at the head of the country. Erdogan’s meeting with Devlet Bahceli Read more
Mayor of Ankara and member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ibrahim Melih Gokcek has announced he would step down from his position after 23 years, as the party leader and country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan goes on Read more
A report leaked through broadcaster ARD has revealed that the German government is cautious in its dealings with neighboring Turkey because “as a result of the step-by-step Islamization of its foreign and domestic policy since 2011, Turkey has become the Read more
Members of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will on Sunday elect current Transport Minister as the new leader of the party and de facto country’s Prime Minister in replacement of Ahmet Davutoglu who recently announced he was stepping down. Read more
Ahmet Davutoglu is expected to step down as Turkey’s Prime Minister at the ruling party’s congress to be held this May or early next month. Rift between Davutoglu and President Erdogan has become clear following a Wednesday 90-minute meeting between Read more
After the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition People’s Democratic Party (HDP) exchanged blows, kicks and throwing objects at each other during a constitutional parliamentary commission meeting to lift immunity of lawmakers, the draft was adopted and Read more
The speaker of the Turkish parliament, Ismail Kahraman, has called for the emulation of other Middle Eastern states through a constitutional reform because the word Allah does not appear in the Turkish constitution. He said as “a Muslim country”, Turkey Read more
In his first speech after his party’s victory in the November 1 parliamentary elections, President Erdogan stated that they will push forward the revision of the constitution to change the presidential status from a ceremonial post to that of the 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