Controversies during the Turkish general election, November

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has continued firing salvoes at both Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), by suggesting these opposition parties purposefully display solidarity with countries whose relations have deteriorated with Ankara, while HDP's co-leader Selahattin Demirta?, main target of the prime minister's salvoes, has remained defiant and ar

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has continued firing salvoes at both Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), by suggesting these opposition parties purposefully display solidarity with countries whose relations have deteriorated with Ankara, while HDP's co-leader Selahattin Demirta?, main target of the prime minister's salvoes, has remained defiant and ar

When I come to work, I am first greeted by a member of private security standing at the entrance of the open air car park; which is behind the Hürriyet building and its neighbor, the CNNTürk building.

Then I take the stairs to get to the level where the two buildings are situated. At the top of the stairs, there is another member of the private security.

My show on CNN Türk was fined 37,000 Turkish Liras by the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), by a majority vote. 

The fine was over a program that went on air on Oct. 2 hosting writer Muhsin K?z?lkaya, a deputy of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and journalist Günay Aslan, a member of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta?

Turkish police said on Nov. 23 that damage to the car of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirta? was not caused by gunfire, after a party spokesman said it had been hit by a bullet in an apparent assassination attempt. 

A spokesperson for the HDP had said the car's rear window was hit on Nov. 22 as he drove in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

A court in Turkey's eastern province of Van has sentenced a lawmaker from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to a prison sentence of six years and three months on the charges of "being a member of the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] terrorist organization."

The ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) hold over the power of the nation makes Turkey "always safe," Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has argued, in the wake of the Paris attacks where jihadists killed at least 129 people.

Two soldiers were killed on Nov. 4 during clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern Hakkari province, amid the Turkish army continued its airstrikes against the PKK bases in the northern Iraq. 

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a number of other Kurdish groups have called on the government to establish a joint commission at parliament to resume the stalled peace process.