Bülent Arınç

Turkey should mend fences with Egypt, as the rest of the world sees Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's government as "normal," Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has opposed the detention of two media chiefs who were taken into custody in controversial weekend raids on journalists and television staff linked to U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen.

"It is not right to deprive a person of their personal freedom for even a single day," Arınç told reporters on Dec. 19.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç had said of the mysterious Twitter user identified as Fuat Avni, "If what he says turns out to be true, then it is a grave situation."

On the morning of Dec. 14, it was understood that they were indeed true and indeed grave.

Turkey has moved to revive broken ties with Middle Eastern countries, including Syria, Egypt and the Gulf states, according to Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç, who stressed the "friendship and brotherhood" amid the ongoing crises in bilateral relations.

An imam who worked at a mosque in the Çanakkale province of northwestern Turkey has joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), daily Taraf quoted Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç as saying on Dec. 12, adding that the imam has been removed from his post.

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç failed to completely deny recent claims that hundreds of relatives and friends of Cabinet members and ruling party lawmakers have been appointed to government positions without passing the required public personnel examination.

The mandate the Turkish government is seeking from the Parliament to authorize the army to send troops into Iraq and Syria to deal with growing threat of extremist jihadists does also include opening its bases to foreign troops, Deputy PM Arınç has announced

Turkey is working on a three-stage EU action plan to accelerate its accession process, Deputy Prime Minister Arınç has said

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister has paid homage to the “Saturday Mothers” while speaking about the demonstration by the mothers of children who have allegedly been abducted by outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.