Turkey’s Interior Ministry has suspended the mayor of a southeastern town over inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda. A curfew which was implemented late Sept. 4 in the Cizre district of Şırnak would be removed as of 7:00 a.m. on Sept. 12.
Residents of the Cizre district of southeastern Turkey’s Şırnak province, where a nine-day curfew ended as of 7:00 am on Sept 12, remained deprived of health and funeral services
Turkish PM Davutoğlu pledges strong return to power in the Nov 1 with a soul-searching which would get guidance from founding principles of his AKP
One-candidate AKP congress opens with Erdoğan, Davutoğlu videos
For the first time since it has been found in 2001, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) holds a congress without attendance of its founding leader
A controversial member of parliament has been elected to the bureau of the Sept 12 congress of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara
PM Davutoğlu, the current leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), will emerge as the sole candidate for leadership at its Sept. 12 convention, with names running for the AKP’s highest decision-making body reflecting the clout of its founding leader, President Erdoğan
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu recently stated: “We are going up in the opinion polls … We are doing everything we can for our votes to increase and to achieve one-party rule.”
With its logo resembling the symbol of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its devotion to President Erdoğan, a new youth organization stands accused of attacking political party headquarters and media buildings in Turkey
A high school student has been sentenced to 11 months in prison for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Central Anatolian province of Konya.
A prosecutor has demanded acquittal for 35 members of Beşiktaş football fan group çArşı for charges of plotting and organizing to topple the government during the 2013 Gezi Park protests, while asking for jail sentences for disobeying a law on meetings and demonstrations
A primary school teacher from Cizre: “There is no armory here, civilians are killed. Youngsters in their twenties put up barricades to protect themselves. A nation totally antagonist is born.”
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