Tag: Justice and Development Party

A referendum may be in sight to set the date of the country's upcoming local elections as the government’s submitted proposal for the change failed to secure the backing of ...

PM Erdoğan looks to give momentum his party’s efforts to solve the Kurdish problem by announcing plans to make Kurdish an elective class from the fourth grade on.   The ...

Hürriyet Daily News Turkish E.U. Minister Egemen Bağış has met with the two Turkish-Jewish citizens chosen for the 120-member European Jewish Parliament, Cefi Kamhi and Vital Denis Ojalvo Öner. Egemen ...

Retreating amid a barrage of harsh criticism, the Turkish government promises to ‘ease concerns’ regarding a controversial draft to alter the education system The government promised yesterday to ease concerns ...

Hürriyet Daily News A recent analysis published on the website of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) slams the treatment of journalists in Turkey, saying that many journalists - especially Kurdish ...

Hürriyet Daily News Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan left his house in Istanbulyesterday afternoon for the first time since undergoing surgery for a second time Feb. 10. Erdoğan and his wife, Emine ...

Hürriyet Daily News A prosecutor’s office’s recent call for Turkey’s top intelligence staff to testify in an ongoing probe is connected to efforts to reshape the country’s political landscape in ...

As a parliamentary commission held a discussion on Thursday on a bill to extend compulsory education from eight years to 12, various opinions that are critical and supportive of the ...

President Abdullah Gül and several ministers attended a winter military exercise in the northeastern province of Kars on Thursday. The Turkish president, Deputy Prime Ministers Bülent Arınç and Beşir Atalay, ...