One of the toughest reactions to Erdoğan from his deputy, Bülent Arınç… A Turkey news roundup…

Deputy PM admits rift with PM over co-ed housing statements

Deputy Prime Minister has admitted his remarks seeking to negate the prime minister?s harsh stance

Ruling party deputies also question Erdoğan’smotives …

Hurriyet Daily News

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s vow to crack down on mixed-gender student accommodation has created a reaction from his own party

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s vow to crack down on mixed-gender student accommodation has created a reaction from his own party. DHA photo

 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s vow to crack down on mixed-gender student accommodation has created a reaction from his own party. DHA photo
O tişört Erdoğan'ın basın toplantısına damga vurdu<br /><br />
A Swedish journalist protests Erdoğan who is in his Scandinavia tour…

EU?s Füle hopeful for ‘balanced solution’ to Turkey’s mixed-sex accommodation debate

Meeting with EU?s Stefan Füle Nov 8, Turkish officials assured the EU that the government will find a ?balanced solution?

Turkish main opposition leader accuses gov?t of criminalizing students

The recent pressure on university students by the government amounts to a ?criminalization? of students, CHP head says

EU’s Füle meets Turkish opposition

As the first meeting of the day, Füle gathered with Peace and Democracy Party co-chair Gültan Kışanak and People?s Democratic Party co-chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü

Erdoğan’s infamous talk on mixed-sex accommodation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRO3taAwpK0

Confusion in ruling AKP on student controversy

Members of the ruling AKP have sought to limit the damage from PM’s controversial remarks

Turkey?s Prime Minister Courts Controversy Once More

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had tempered his often divisive public comments after protests a few months ago, stirs anger by attacking a new target: coed dormitories.

Ankara criteria for private life

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told his party members at the Kızılcahaman retreat

The Erdoğan Doctrine: I am conservative, so I can intervene

When Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan set forth in 2001 with his buddies

Turkey 2014 is not Iran 1979, but Orwell?s 1984

Many see Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s desire to prohibit coed student apartments

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Turkish university students in probe to be barred

Students will be suspended from the university during a legal probe, according to new regulations

Be tougher in women?s issues, EU commissioner tells Turkey

Stefan Füle has called on Turkey to take a tougher stance on gender inequality

Turkey ?stopped helping? al-Qaeda near Syria border: Report

Turkey has recently ceased aiding al-Qaeda-linked groups near the Syrian border, PYD leader Muslim has reportedly said

Turkey’s new border wall angers Kurds on both sides of Syrian divide

Locals shocked at building of ‘unnecessary and divisive’ new border wall, which they claims risks Kurdish peace talks

The Turkish authorities have started erecting a wall on the frontier with Syria in what is being seen as an attempt to divide the Kurdish majority populations on both sides of the border, prompting protests and hunger strikes, and jeopardising peace talks.

Court delays trial into publisher over French author Apollinaire?s book

A local court postponed its ruling in the case re-launched against a Turkish publisher

Turkish mayor stops hunger strike over Syria border wall

The mayor of southeastern Nusaybin town, Ayşe Gökkan, ended a nine-day hunger strike

 

Nolle Prosequi in Footage Erase Investigation

While a prosecutor has stopped to investigate further the investigation regarding the erasing of surveillance footage in Ali Ismail Korkmaz case, another investigation on expert and suspect policeman is underway

Eye-Loser Gezi Protestor Sentenced to House Arrest

Çağdaş Küçükbattal, a Gezi Resistance protestor who lost his eye due to a gas bomb canister, was put under house arrest.

Turkish lira hits five-week lows, focus on US data

Turkey?s lira weakened and was expected to remain volatile today

Truck full of heavy weapons seized near Syrian border in Adana

A cargo truck full of bazookas, missiles, bombs and guns has been seized in southern province of Adana

 

 

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