Kenan Evren

The other evening, at 7:30 p.m., on Kemanke? Street in Istanbul's Karaköy district, there was a huge crowd in front of the "Global Karaköy" building.

The opening of an exhibition by the world's most famous street artist, Banksy, was in progress. The first comers were me, as a huge Banksy fan, and daily Hürriyet writer Kanat Atkaya.  

Writer, intellectual and humorist Aziz Nesin, who died in 1995, will be remembered on his 100th birthday with a series of events in ?zmir and a charity event in Istanbul The ?zmir Metropolitan Municipality has organized a festival for the 100th anniversary of late writer, intellectual and humorist Aziz Nesin's birth, while events will also take place in Istanbul to mark the occasion. 

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. 

It has to be asked of Professor Celal ?engör, who ruined an exceptionally sunny Sunday for many of us with his poisonous ideas in an interview with Radikal's Arma?an Ça?layan, while he praised late military leader Kenan Evren and the Sept.

During the times when Pakistan and Bangladesh were still one and this journalist was still a young beginner of the profession, there was a Pakistani journalist, Hossain Shahadat, who spared time and energy to explain the deliquescence of souls in the Indus River...

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? has said there was "no change" in his party's stance opposing a transition of the Turkish government from the current parliamentarian system to a presidential one, nor was there any cause for such a shift. 

Daily Cumhuriyet has listed the unforgettable personalities of comedy star Levent K?rca, the beloved actor we lost earlier this week. 

I looked at the list; everybody is there: There is Atatürk. There is Süleyman Demirel, Bülent Ecevit. Even Necmettin Erbakan. There is also Bill Clinton. He even impersonated a despot like Ghaddafi. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said, ?The system has changed in Turkey.? Then he went on, ?What needs to be done is that the legal framework of this actual state should be verified by the new constitution.?

Based on these two sentences, we can easily say: 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s declaration of a de facto shift in Turkey?s administrative system to a presidential system has infuriated opposition leaders, who say the declaration indicates ?rule by diktat.?

Turkey's last general from the country's bloody 1980 coup era was laid to rest in Istanbul on Saturday, having passed away two days ago at the age of 90.

Following a military ceremony, Tahsin ?ahinkaya was buried in Karacaahmet Cemetery following the noon prayer and a funeral ceremony at Selimiye Mosque, which was attended by a large number of high-ranking officers.