Ahmet Davutoğlu

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has proposed a yet-to-be-founded private company continues oil and gas drilling activities in the Mediterranean until a resolution can be found for the decades-long Cyprus issue.

The news about the resignation of U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel came right after it was announced that the nuclear talks with Iran had been extended to the end of June 2015.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been facing difficulties in gathering enough deputies to conduct its legislative work in Parliament, mainly due to the reluctance of 71 MPs who will not run for reelection in June next year.  

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, a professor-turned-politician, has slammed the use of Wikipedia in academic work, amid an ongoing debate over the “censorship” of several pages of the Internet’s free encyclopedia in Turkey.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said the government is strongly against discrimination toward the Alevi citizens and he will “personally follow-up” if any kinds of official discrimination occur, during a speech in the Eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Nov. 23.

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I on Nov. 23, as part of his official trip to Turkey.

Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited the Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul’s historic Fener district, where they were greeted by Patriarch Bartholomew I.

Turkey’s prime minister has challenged the main opposition leader to prove with concrete evidence his claims that the government and the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) are conspiring to create intra-party divisions, while the Republican People’s Party (CHP) head maintained that the plot against the CHP has already been documented.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu highlighted Nov. 22 the importance of the use of Cyrpus's natural resources for peace, adding that Turkey would be the primary user of gas coming out of the divided island.

Davutoğlu made the remarks in a speech at the closing session of the sixth Atlantic Council Energy and Economic Summit in Istanbul.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has put an end to speculation over the timing of next year’s parliamentary elections. “They will be held on time,” he said, adding that this would reflect the normalcy of state affairs in the country. That means the elections will probably be held on June 7, 2015, as the mandate of the current Parliament ends on June 12.

Turkey’s opposition parties have increased the volume in their demand for more transparency in the Kurdish peace process amid growing dissatisfaction with the amount of information that has been shared by the government on the matter.