Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces the most serious challenge to his political career since he came to office 11 years ago as a high-level ongoing investigation into corruption allegations has claimed three political casualties so (...)
On Novomber 23, Egypt expelled the Turkish ambassador in Cairo, Huseyin Avni Botsali, and declared him a persona non grata. The Egyptian foreign ministry announced that it was not terminating all diplomatic ties with Turkey, but rather downgrading (...)
Recent comments by the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have about the lack of separated university dormitories for male and female students in the city of Denizli caused outcry on social media.
The Turkish daily Zaman ran a report on (...)
Journalist Bram Vermeulen, a correspondent for the Dutch liberal newspaper NRC Handelsblad, has recently claimed that the Turkish government placed his name on the blacklist of unwelcomed people in Turkey. He was informed by the decision upon his (...)
The ban on headscarf had been in place since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Thus, the headscarf ban served as a reminder to the 95 percent Muslim population that Turkey is a secular nation in which there is a (...)
After weeks of rumours and anticipations about the successor of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Prime Ministry, the Justice and Development Party, known as the AK Party, nominated Turkey's current foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, as the new party (...)
"Let's put our grievances and differences behind us. This is a new beginning," Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's new and first-ever publicly elected president, told a celebrating crowd from the balcony of his party's headquarters.
Erdogan told the (...)
As people across Turkey hit the ballot boxes to vote in the first ever presidential elections, Turkey watchers argue that the political polarization is at its highest. Many attribute that to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has been in the office of the (...)
As Turkey prepares for its first ever popular presidential elections, two candidates have been formally announced. And both hail from a conservative, Islamist background. The main opposition Republican People's Party, known as CHP, announced on June (...)
On June 11, the terrorist Islamist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sahm, ISIS, sent shock waves across the Middle East following its advances in Iraq and its capture of the city of Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq. As a result, the (...)
One year ago, modern Turkey had arguably witnessed one of the biggest protests in its history, the Gezi protests. It all started when on May 28, 2013 hundreds staged a sit-in in Gezi Park, one of last remaining green areas left in Taksim Square (...)
As Hamas seems to be more isolated than ever after the removal of the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in Egypt by the military, the Palestinian Islamist movement is attempting to forge a new diplomatic strategy that would help elevate its (...)
During the day, he recites the adhan (call for prayer in Islam) and leads people five times for the daily Muslim prayers, and at night he gets together with his friends and band members to play some rock music. He is Ahmet Mhusin Tuzer the official (...)
The Turkish government led by the Justice and development Party AKP won by an impressive national average of 45 percent in the recent local elections that took place on March 30.
Faced by corruption scandal and sensitive incriminating leaks, the (...)
The Turkish government has dismissed a report by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh suggesting that the Turkish intelligence was behind a sarin gas attack in Syria last summer in cooperation with the al-Qaeda-affiliated organization (...)
Despite accusations of fraud and irregularities during the mayoral elections in Turkey, the difference between Erdogan's ruling AKP and opposition parties is not in the single.
"This is the wedding day of the new Turkey," Prime Minister, Recep (...)
In every election over the 11 years, Erdogan and his party came out triumphant with impressive results. But this local election poses a serious challenge to the powerful Turkish premier and serve as a litmus test for the parliamentary and (...)
The extraordinary decision by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to ban twitter inside Turkey will not only cost him tens of thousands of followers but is also expected to take its toll on him at the upcoming elections.
"We will eradicate (...)
Erdogan is seen by his critics as riding a wave of nationalistic, Islamist outrage in his defiance of any reconciliation with Israel and in highlighting the sufferings of the Palestinians, which what his electorate exactly wants.
The diplomatic ties (...)
There is a growing controversy in Turkey about several incidents that left the impression that the authorities were supporting rebels fighting in Syria to topple President Bashar Assad, including jihadists.
Several reports and leaks accused the (...)
The raids come as radical Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria have gained ground in northern Syria, which left Ankara open to accusations it is lending support to extremist Islamists and turning a blind eye to vital routes for jihadists.
Turkish (...)
A Muslim Brotherhood-backed television channel was lunched in Istanbul. Rabaa TV, named after the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in which more than a 1,000 pro-ousted president Mohammed Morsi protesters were killed after police crackdown last August.
The (...)