Özgür Özel

​The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has shared a proposal to establish an inter-party commission with opposition parties to evaluate the criticisms directed at the implementation of decree laws. 

The commission, according to the AKP's proposition, will be composed of five members, one member from each parties which has a group in the parliament, as well as one minister. 

Turkey is like a "semi-open prison," main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said in a speech on the rising number of jailed journalists and writers in the country. 

The Turkish parliament has approved a law aimed at improving the investment climate in Turkey, while the main opposition chair has said his party forced the government to drop a controversial article which allowed money transfers into the country without questioning their origins.

Turkey will mark National Sovereignty and Children's Day on April 23, the anniversary of the Turkish parliament's foundation, amid a debate over the cancellation of the parliamentary reception for the occasion. 

Turkey will mark National Sovereignty and Children's Day on April 23, the anniversary of the Turkish parliament's foundation, amid a debate over the cancellation of the parliamentary reception for the occasion. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) group deputy chairman Özgür Özel said on April 18 the party would hold its own reception for National Sovereignty and Children's Day on April 23, after the annual parliamentary reception for the day, which is also the anniversary of the Turkish parliament's foundation, was cancelled this year due to the rising death toll in anti-terror operations

Turkey's main opposition party has given a cold shoulder to a proposal by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on a provisional change in the constitution which would allow parliament to lift the immunities of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers and others for one time only. 

The main opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) will send a delegation to the U.S. to attend the hearing of Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish businessman who was arrested in Florida last week, in a bid to observe the case closely, the party's deputy parliamentary group chair said March 28.

As President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an officially announced his decision to take Turkey to re-election in November, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s bid to offer posts in the interim government to individual figures from the Republican People?s Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has been given the cold shoulder, with senior executives from both parties dubbing the proposal ?indecen

Senior executives of the Republican People?s Party (CHP) have warned President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, arguing his refusal to give the mandate to form a government to their party, which garnered the second highest vote total in the June 7 parliamentary election, would simply mean ?putschism.?