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The Kurdish opening initiated by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem as well as the famous "zero problems with neighbors" policy was a reflection of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's famous "peace at home, peace in the world" motto. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will not allow "provocations" to derail its "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 21 on the seventh day of the march.

"We have completed 100 kilometers so far. Were there any windows broken or was traffic hindered? No," Kılıçdaroğlu told private broadcaster Fox TV on June 21.

The opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has criticized a draft report prepared by a parliamentary commission formed to investigate the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, saying that the political and financial leg of the coup attempt was not revealed by "obstacles put by AKP [ruling Justice and Development Party] members of the commission."

Opposition parties that have members in a parliamentary investigation commission into the July 15, 2016, coup attempt are expected to file an objection against a draft report over claims that it was not reflecting the truth and worked as a cover up for the political leg of the coup. 

Former President Abdullah Gül has dismissed speculation that he could run in the coming presidential elections against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, while giving messages of solidarity against "serious threats from abroad."

President Erdoğan has slammed former Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Deniz Baykal for proposing former President Abdullah Gül as the presidential candidate of the "no" campaigners, calling the veteran CHP lawmaker a "virus."

The leader of a political party cannot be the impartial president of all 80 million Turks, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a member on May 2. 

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) carries the heritage of a holy cause, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said as he regained his party membership with a signature at the party headquarters on May 2. 

Was he back? Did he ever go? Indeed the parliamentary group meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on May 2 at the party headquarters will remove a source of deception and put an end to the era of the "impartial president" system after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally becomes an AKP member.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is planning to hold an extraordinary convention on May 21 to elect President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its chairman in line with constitutional amendments that now permit the head of the nation to retain links with his political party.