Ahmet Necdet Sezer

The boat used by modern Türkiye founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as a sightseeing boat has been restored and opened to visitors at the Naval Museum in the western province of Çanakkale.

The 34th Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, kicked off on April 4 with a concert by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) at the MEB Şura Hall in Ankara. 

To mark the 110th birth year of late composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun, who served as an adviser to the foundation's executive board, the orchestra played his "Ayin Raksı" piece.  

"Those who are against the presidential system are wrong and unfortunately lying," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. 

Here is the gist of that group's criticism though; this system accumulates power in a single hand, it aims at creating a one-man rule, whoever is elected, will establish an authoritarian regime if they get hold of those powers.

The government-supported constitutional amendment will concentrate power in one pair of hands "to avoid strife," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, appealing to voters from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as the referendum campaign gathered momentum. 

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said he never had any links with the Gülen group throughout his political career following a July 2016 coup attempt that was blamed on the group's U.S.-based leader, Fethullah Gülen.

Thousands of people bid farewell to Tarık Akan, a renowned Turkish actor who died of lung cancer at the age of 66 in Istanbul on Sept. 16, following a ceremony at the Muhsin Ertuğrul Theater on Sept 18. 

Problems between the president and the prime minister are at their lowest point in Turkey's modern history, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has claimed, amid renewed debate on the government's desired shift to a presidential administrative system from the current parliamentary one. 

The hatred of women (misogyny) has always been here. It did not start 12 years ago. But it did escalate with the conservative administration. And it has reached its peak with the latest verdict of the Constitutional Court. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an appointed Mahmut Ak the new rector of Istanbul University, although he came second in the elections.

Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the predecessor of Abdullah Gül and Erdo?an at the presidency, had done the same.

It was the year 2007, the month was May. Because of the Constitutional Court?s decision of the quorum of 367 members, Turkey was not able to elect its president and its political agenda was tangled.