Recep Tayyip Erdo?an

Turkey?s government cannot take further steps in the peace process unless the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) lays down its arms and takes concrete steps to foster peace, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said.

A Turkish soldier, who was injured in an outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) attack in the eastern province of Erzincan in 2008, has died after remaining in a coma for seven years.

Maj. Y?lmaz Tankül, who was a Gendarmerie captain at the time, died on March 21 after seven years of treatment in intensive care unit.

The HDP has announced a call by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to hold a congress in spring to discuss disarmament in Turkey

A Turkish prosecutor has summoned a prominent journalist over his remarks in an interview he recently conducted.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has thrown a new curveball by explicitly expressing his opposition to the resignation of Hakan Fidan, the head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T), from his post to run for parliament.

President Erdo?an reiterates his criticism of intel chief Hakan Fidan for resigning to run for office, saying he advised him to stay in the critical post Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has said his confidant, National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Chief Hakan Fidan, resigned from his post to run for parliament for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) despite Erdo?an?s

Civil servants are lining up to leave their posts before a Feb. 10 deadline in the hopes of running in the elections for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) even though PM Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he will only approve the candidature of 15 to 20 former bureaucrats.

Head of the Constitutional Court Ha?im K?l?ç has warned that regarding differences and diversity as a potential danger against the state will make expanding freedoms in Turkey impossible.

With the vote in parliament late Jan. 20, the majority of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers put the final nail in the coffin of yet another coup attempt targeting the ruling party, and hence the national will.