s Democracy Party

Career diplomat Ya?ar Yak?? is one of the founding members of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). He became the foreign minister in the first AKP cabinet formed after the 2002 elections.

Turkey?s main social democratic party and its primary ultranationalist party have a greater need to form a coalition government than the Justice and Development Party (AKP), the prime minister has said, noting that his party would again win any snap polls.

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), an offshoot of the PKK, are being legitimized thanks to their fight against jihadists in Syria, Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Necdet Özel has said.

A senior government official has criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over his latest intervention into the government-led Kurdish peace process, describing the president?s remarks as emotional and personal. 

The People?s Democracy Party (HDP) denies that the envoys of the EU countries urged its co-chairman that the decision to run for the parliament as the party was risky. The People?s Democracy Party (HDP) has denied that the envoys of the European Union countries urged its co-chairman Selahattin Demirta? that the decision to run for the parliament as the political party was risky.

Turkey?s Interior Ministry has admitted that police might have been responsible for shooting dead 12-year-old Nihat Kazanhan in Cizre last week, despite earlier claims by PM Ahmet Davuto?lu that police were not involved.