Yalçın Akdoğan

China will soon become one of Ankara's "most important" tourism partners, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on April 17 during an official visit to Beijing. 

The Turkish Culture Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on Jan. 12 that Turkey is among the top ten countries in the world in book diversity. 

Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is readying to announce a new plan for a resolution to the decades-old Kurdish question at an extraordinary congress on May 20, HDP spokesperson Osman Baydemir has said, stating that his party will work toward "a process where there is no conflict and war."

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) brought together prominent party figures, past and present, in a bid to mobilize them ahead of the April 16 referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system, though former President Abdullah Gül and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu were not present at the meeting. 

Turkey's new ambassador to Israel, Mustafa Kemal Ökem, has officially been appointed to mission after his name appeared in the government's Official Gazette on Dec. 7. 

The foreign ministry had officially announced Ökem's appointment to the post on Nov. 30. 

The newly elected leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Binali Yildirim, announced the new Turkish government on Tuesday after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

Turkey wants to establish a secure zone on the border with Syria that would go ten kilometers into the territory of the neighboring country.

This has been announced by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan. The proposed safe zone would include the Syrian town of Azaz.

Turkish former deputy prime minister Ali Babacan will stand as a candidate for the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in a Nov. 1 election, marking the return of one of its most respected names for the snap poll. 

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has called on his followers to lay down arms in a bid to find a democratic solution to the 30-year-old insurgency.

Official talks on the Kurdish peace process may start in 10 days, the co-chair Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said in Moscow at an affiliate of a U.S.-based think tank.

At the same time, remarks by Yalçın Akdoğan, the deputy prime minister, also implied that the government was working on a process for a "final solution."