Selvi

News items reported from the Turkish capital Ankara over the last few weeks are not quite consistent with the political predictability that one may have expected from a single-party government led by a president who recently won a referendum gathering all executive power.

Details continue to emerge regarding the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov, who was killed late on Dec. 19 by a Turkish police officer in central Ankara.

Turkey must learn "to live with terror," the head of Turkey's Supreme Court has said, hours after similar remarks by a columnist of a pro-government newspaper created outrage on social media.