Deniz Baykal

Interior Minister Efkan Ala, while chatting with journalists the other day, made an interesting comment about media groups affiliated with the Fethullah Gülen movement: ?Until these incidents took place, these media outlets had not even once criticized the government. After these incidents, they started. Is this the media? I am asking: Didn?t the government make any mistakes from 2002 to 2013?

“Their plans to arrest me were ready,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his speech on Dec. 12 while hosting the Turkish Union of Chambers of Commerce (TOBB) in the new presidential palace in Ankara.

“Their plans to arrest me were ready,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his speech on Dec. 12 while hosting the Turkish Union of Chambers of Commerce (TOBB) in the new presidential palace in Ankara.

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.

A senior executive of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) who has recently heavily criticized party policies that he claims caused defeat in the presidential election, resigned on Aug. 18.

I am inspired by poet Hasan Hüseyin’s poem titled “Koçero,” where a bandit is depicted from the various points of view of many people, as a matter of fact, in a very effective style. I want to try a similar style where different people and segments portray the presidential candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. Here it is:

The Republican People’s Party’s presidential nominee Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu starts a debate within the party, with some claiming that he does not represent the party’s authentic worldview