Umut Oran

Riot police and water cannons stood on alert on May 31 as Taksim Square and Gezi Park, alongside numerous roads and metro stations leading to Taksim, were closed to prevent gatherings called by Taksim Solidarity, a collective organization of several rights groups at the center of the Gezi Park protests, to commemorate the second anniversary of the nationwide anti-government protests. 

Riot police and water cannons stood on alert on May 31 as Taksim Square and Gezi Park, alongside numerous roads and metro stations leading to Taksim, were closed to prevent gatherings called by Taksim Solidarity, a collective organization of several rights groups at the center of the Gezi Park protests, to commemorate the second anniversary of the nationwide anti-government protests. 

550 candidates of the social democrat party represent the most inclusive list of candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary elections in comparison with other important political parties, a party official has said, informing that 20 percent of candidates are female with many of them having the chance to be elected. 

An investigation has been launched into a total of 58 well-known figures in Turkey on the grounds that they criticized the state-run Anadolu Agency on Twitter, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) boycotted the 76th Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission (KPK) meeting on March 19 in protest at the "autocratic rule" of the Turkish government and its "insincere and oppressive" policies.

An Ankara prosecutor launched a probe on Feb. 20, based on two pro-government newspapers? claims that the Republican People?s Party (CHP) and the Fethullah Gülen community were jointly plotting an assassination of Sümeyye Erdo?an, the daughter of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.

A former news cameraman in Turkey has died after suffering a heart attack while arguing with traffic police, who handcuffed him despite him warning about his health.

All of them are complaining, but it is mostly Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq and Israel that have had the strongest reactions against Turkey, on the grounds that Turkey “interferes too much with our domestic affairs.”

Main opposition CHP Istanbul deputy Umut Oran’s attempt to find out whether he is being legally or illegally wiretapped has failed to bring any result

The race for the leadership of Turkey’s main opposition party has become wide open, with a leading dissident stating she will run against its leader at the upcoming party convention and the current leader promising a new vision for the party.