Turkey

Media freedom, pluralism and media playing the field for candidates were areas which raised concerns ahead of Turkey’s Nov. 1 elections, according to the Organization for Security and Co-operation...

Twenty-eight suspects in a case into the Gezi Park protests of summer 2013 have been sentenced to jail terms ranging from five months to one year, in the Central...

A group of international editors and news publishers have penned an open letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Oct. 30 on the eve of the Nov. 1...

Turkey’s top business group has expressed “serious concerns” over the fate of press freedom and the security of the judiciary after the seizure of two televisions and newspapers owned...

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has vowed to continue military operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) throughout the winter, while Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu has pledged to continue...

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said there was “no change” in his party’s stance opposing a transition of the Turkish government from the current parliamentarian system...

Presidential spokesperson İbrahim Kalın addressed a referendum for a possible change to a powerful presidential system in Turkey. “In the case of such an important issue, this debate cannot...

The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has dismissed calls for an extraordinary party convention, while the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has defiantly stood behind his recent policies...

People’s Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen has made clear the party prefers Turkey’s current parliamentarian system to the presidential one, adding every issue should be open to debate....

More than half of all Turkish citizens prefer Turkey’s current parliamentarian system instead of imposing a presidential system on the country, according to a survey conducted a day after...