Melih Gökçek

New Ankara Mayor Mustafa Tuna has requested the resignation of all bureaucrats and chairs related to the municipality in his first meeting since the resignation of Melih Gökçek.

Mustafa Tuna, previously mayor of Ankara's Sincan district, replaced Melih Gökçek, the capital's long-time mayor who recently resigned, on Nov. 6.

Quadruple the number of trees as those cut down in the forest of Ankara's Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) will be planted elsewhere, instead of the double that had been promised, Mayor Melih Gökçek claimed on Sept. 12.

The construction of a new road set to cut through Middle East Technical University's (ODTÜ) forested campus in the capital Ankara started on Sept. 9, after the university and the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality agreed on the details of the road in a protocol signed the previous day upon an instruction from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

The construction of a new road to cut through the Middle East Technical University's (ODTÜ) forested campus in the capital Ankara started on Sept. 9, in a bid to connect Bilkent City Hospital to the city.  

The launch of the construction came after the university and the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality agreed on the details of the road in a protocol signed the previous day. 

A tunnel project of 2.1 kilometers in length passing through the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in the Turkish capital Ankara will destroy around 24 hectares of the university's forest land, the university's rector, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök, said on Aug. 15.  

Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Işık and Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ have refuted recent claims that the premises of Anıtbakir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, would be opened to construction.

A year after the July 15, 2016, coup attempt, Turkey’s military — the once mighty pillar of a secular, Muslim-majority state with the second-largest standing force in NATO — has lost its Kemalist oomph.

Ankara Mayor Melih Gokcek has suggested that the 6.1 magnitude earthquake which hit the Aegean Sea on Monday could have been the result of seismic testing.

The quake struck south of Greece's Lesvos island killing one woman, injuring 10 and badly damaging buildings and roads.

While Greek resuce teams are battling to free trapped people under collapsed houses, the Mayor of Ankara, Melih Gokcek suggested the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit between the islands of Lesvos and Chios, Monday, was fake. In an absurd tweet he wrote: “I believe that it might be a fake earthquake. I am not saying that it is certain, but it is a serious possibility.