Tag: AKP

The social and political atmosphere in Turkey has not changed much since 2001: victory for the Justice and Development Party (the AKP) followed by constant hope that the good people ...

The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has returned to power as a single-party government just five months after losing its majority in June, has drafted a timeline for its ...

“ was not all engineered by the AKP, but very much so. But it was also very cleverly used. They used the mistakes of the others, like the PKK, for ...

Turkey’s people voted for “stability and confidence” in the snap Nov. 1 elections, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said following his Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) victory, while pledging to ...

Three lawmakers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) were sent to the party’s joint disciplinary committee with a request for their definitive expulsion after publically expressing criticism over ...

The rift between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the prestigious Fethullah Gulen religious movement hit the surface last week. On Nov. 28, Mehmet Baransu of Taraf published a copy of a National ...

It was in autumn 1997, shortly before the school year opened in Turkey. Bulent Arinc still remembers every moment of that day. He was touring a district of Manisa — the Aegean province ...

Turkey is going through a period of normalization after the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) latest set of reform packages, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, while dismissing allegations that ...

Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said today that they were issuing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) new credit to solve the terror problem in Turkey despite all ...

The government only has a few days left to take urgent action to fulfill imprisoned hunger strikers’ demands or the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) could join the action, party ...