Gülsün Bilgehan

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmaker Gülsün Bilgehan has criticized Turkey's record on women's rights with a report on the third anniversary of the Istanbul Convention. 

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.  

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed educational policy amendments envisioning the removal of the founder leaders of Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and İsmet İnönü from the curriculum. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's suggestion that the Treaty of Lausanne, which largely gave Turkey its present borders instead of the rump state envisioned in the Treaty of Sèvres, was "presented as a victory" has drawn an angry reaction from the Republican People's Party (CHP).

?smail Kahraman, the Istanbul deputy from the ranks of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), has been elected as the new parliament speaker in the third round of the voting on Nov 22. 

If Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an?s intention in his address yesterday was to make the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) angry and decide not to join the ?temporary? election government of Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, it did not work.

It's been a year since the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty of the Council of Europe (CoE) dedicated to preventing and combating general and domestic violence against women. Although the convention entered into force Aug. 1, 2014, the country has failed to take steps on this road.

A report adopted by the Council of Europe (CoE) on June 24 says media transparency should be promoted, stressing the importance of freedom of expression and media pluralism for a functioning democracy.

A staunchly pro-government newspaper has stirred controversy by claiming that the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, was poisoned by his long-time comrade ?smet ?nönü, provoking condemnation and irking the latter?s successor?s family.

After Atatürk died on Nov. 10, 1938 at the age of 58 due to health problems, ?nönü was elected as Turkey?s second president.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ankara deputy Gülsün Bilgehan, has been elected as Chairperson of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, becoming the first Turkish politician ever to be selected to the top post for a second time.