turkey politics

Turkey has received the first parts of a Russian S-400 missile defence system despite opposition from the US. The shipment arrived in an airbase in the capital Ankara on Friday, the Turkish defence ministry says. The move will anger the US, which has warned that Turkey cannot have both the...

Turkey's electoral body has ordered that Istanbul's local elections be re-held after a shock opposition victory in March. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party questioned the slim win by the opposition CHP, claiming there were "irregularities and corruption"...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/10/turkeys-president-erdogan-approves-constitutional-boost-to-his-powers Wasting no time while Turkey is on lockdown under a state of emergency Erdogan may finally get what he wanted for so long: to openly rule Turkey effectively as an autocrat with a...

In the latest developments on Tuesday, the government fired more than 15,000 employees at the education ministry ... (read on :eek:) link

Local (Czech) news here says something huge is happening in Turkey. Couldn't find anything in English just yet. It's bigger than terrorist attack, there are speculation about coup d'état by part of military. :eye-poppi If you know some fresh news agency in English, please let me know.

Most analysts would agree that the primary cash flow for ISIS runs through Turkey in the form of smuggled oil. In addition, most of their arms and fighters flow through Turkey. While those factors could be explained by an ISIS utilization of the porous 565 Turkish-Syrian border, there have been...

Never a dull moment in Turkish politics. Turkish PM Erdoğan dubs wiretap incriminating him of corruption a 'vile attack’ Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan denied the authenticity of the latest wiretap recording incriminating him of corruption during a Feb. 25 parliamentary group speech...

Turkey in modern history is a state that is strictly secular. Istanbul is a rather cosmopolitan city complete with such infidel things like financial districts and a stock exchange (from what I understand in the Muslim world these things tend to correlate with secularization). Yet the...

There's been some tensions in Turkey for quite a while now, with Prime Minister Erdogan and the ruling party, the Islamic AKP, becoming ever more unpopular with wide segments of Turks. Last night there was a demonstration against one of the last parks in downtown Istanbul being turned into a...