Justice and Development Party (AKP)

Fresh debate has erupted, both in economy and in politics, after the deputy chair of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Numan Kurtulmuş pointed out to the Central Bank as “an institution of the tutelage to be fought, just like the military.”

A group of Roma people who work in a municipal band in the Aegean province of Muğla have complained to the provincial human rights board about being discriminated against in the municipality.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has blamed the movement of the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen for the conviction of hundreds of military officers in the recent coup plot case.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has confirmed that it will announce its candidate for the upcoming presidential elections on July 1, two days before the official deadline.

The release of 230 officers who had been accused in the “Sledgehammer” (Balyoz) case of conspiring to overthrow the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has left Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a quandary. He is praising the Constitutional Court for ruling that the defendant’s rights were violated, but this is the same court that he declared war on a few months ago.

The government should tackle the stranglehold of the Central Bank, just like it did against the military tutelage, according to a prominent member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is proceeding on its “presidency road” without worrying about individual concerns and who will lead the party after the elections, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on June 21.

Speaking to his party’s Istanbul provincial members, Erdoğan said the AKP would continue on its road regardless of who will lead it.

A parliamentary investigation panel to be established to probe corruption claims about four former ministers is likely to be postponed until next year, as the government seeks to prevent it from becoming an issue ahead of the crucial presidential elections in August.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid 'applauded Turkey's move to welcome an independent Kurdistan on its border' during an interview with The Huffington Post on June 19.

Reid reportedly said the U.S. online news outlet that whether the Kurds break away from Iraq and form their own country is a decision that will ultimately have to be made by actors in the region.

Turkish writer Buket Uzuner will submit 40,000 signatures collected via change.org, campaigning against dolphin parks, to the local governor of the resort town Bodrum on June 20.