Mehdi Eker

The Sur Cultural Road Festival, organized for the first time this year within the scope of the Turkish Cultural Road Festival events, has started in Diyarbakır.

Organized by the Culture and Tourism Ministry, the festival will host more than 600 events with the participation of more than 2,000 artists until Oct. 16.

According to him, when two years ago the attempted coup was organized in Turkey, Serbia was among the first countries to give support to the Turkish people and President Erdogan.

"This coup attempt was a terrorist act triggered by Gulen's terrorist organization FETO, and FETO is the same as the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") in Kosovo and Metohija," Markovic says.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) plans to open nine more offices abroad, AKP Deputy Chair Mehdi Eker said on Dec. 29.

Current tense relations between Germany and Turkey will normalize after German elections to be held on Sept. 24, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chair Mehdi Eker has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has shaped the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) new central executive body, which held its first meeting under Erdoğan's leadership as AKP chairman on May 29 amid expectations that he will reshuffle the cabinet in the coming days.  

A top Turkish ruling party official was banned on March 17 from addressing Turkish expat community in the northern German state of Lower Saxony, in a move that is likely to further increase tensions between Germany and Turkey. 

An executive editor of private broadcaster Channel 5 fainted during a live broadcast on state-run TRT News on March 7.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmaker Mehdi Eker was one of the guests and can be seen to be one of the first people to help Abdulkadir Ünal.

Ünal was taken to hospital immediately while the broadcast was paused for breaks. 

Masoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq's north, received a warm welcome in Ankara for key talks as Turkish jets bombed outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the neighboring country. 

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored an unexpected success in the Nov. 1, making a strong comeback after losing nine percentage points in the June 7 general election. In what came as a surprising victory even to its own deputies, the AKP managed to mobilize voters both inside Turkey and abroad. 

As Turkey heads to a reelection on Nov. 1 following the June 7 polls, which failed to produce a single-party or coalition government, the country's political parties have shifted their focus to provinces where they narrowly lost seats in the last election, with some locations particularly under the spotlight.