Recep Tayyip Erdo?an

A comprehensive police raid on one of Turkey?s top conglomerates, Koza ?pek Holding, which owns opposition media outlets, television channels Bugün TV and Kanaltürk and newspapers Bugün and Millet, came only two months before the early elections that will take place on Nov. 1. 

Sözcü, a Turkish daily fiercely critical of the government, has left the slots for opinion columns in the paper empty to protest the government?s ?increasing pressure.?

The Esenbo?a Airport in the Turkish capital Ankara was on full alert on July 24 when a car somehow ended up at the start of the runway, ready for take-off.

An Interior Ministry decree to reshuffle the police chiefs in Bingöl, Çorum, Ayd?n and Diyarbak?r provinces was published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 20, Anadolu Agency has reported.

Today, I was going to write about a couple of modest but positive moves by the Higher Education Board (YÖK), but when President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an said the system had changed, I was more interested in that theme as a law person myself. 

A major thoroughfare in the Atatürk Forest Farm (AOÇ), a previously protected area in the capital of Ankara containing Turkey's controversial presidential complex, will be blocked to vehicular traffic, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality as saying.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is seeking compensation from the co-leader of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirta?, on charges of ?gross insults, slander and impeachment.?

Turkey is moving backwards again with regards to its Kurdish problem. President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is twanging nationalist chords and saying it is not possible to go on with the Kurdish peace process. He is also stoking sentiments against the pro-Kurdish Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), which got 13 percent of the vote in the June 7 elections.

Coalition talks in Turkey have entered a new phase, as delegations from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP) held "exploratory talks" on July 24 aimed at forming a coalition government.

(CHP) held "exploratory talks" on July 24 aimed at forming a coalition government.

Mesut Toprak, a high school friend and businessman at odds with President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over a construction project in Istanbul, will fully cover the expenses of a reconstruction project of the Istanbul ?mam Hatip High School, a religious high school the two attended in the past.