Turkey's government

Turkish security forces have launched an operation against hideouts and shelters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Anatolia, the military said on March 24.
      
Five teams were sent to the Mazz?da?? district in Mardin province after the local governor gave his consent, the army said in a statement posted on its website.        

Social media opened up a new realm for Turkish citizens to access news due to the heavy government control of mainstream media, but the state's increasing control over the Internet means citizens are losing the censorship battle to the state, according to communications scholar Asl?

The leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has accused the government of treason as he was re-elected to the party's top post.

"The ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) has openly betrayed the Turkish history, Turkish nation and the state of the Republic of Turkey," Devlet Bahçeli told during the MHP's 11th Congress in Ankara on March 21.

Turkey's government is asking for 2.3 billion euros from the telecommunication industry for its new 4G tender. The English 4G tender resulted in 2.3 billion pounds years ago. The government is very keen on getting the most out of this tender.

Turkey's budget deficit hit 2.36 billion Turkish Liras ($900 million) in February due to higher seasonal spending on infrastructure and interest expenditures, Finance Minister Mehmet ?im?ek said March 16.
The government announced a 1.7 billion-lira surplus in the February budget last year.

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.

The HDP suggests a much-awaited negotiations phase with the government over the Kurdish issue could start within a fortnig Turkey's government could shift into a negotiations phase "within two weeks" in talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in pursuit of a political settlement to the Kurdish issue, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekda? said Feb.

Turkey's government has initiated a massive reshuffling in the Police Department, with a circular replacing dozens of provincial police chiefs.

As the circular for replacements went into force early Jan. 20, a wide operation into the so-called "parallel structure" - members of the Gülen movement that had allegedly infiltrated the judiciary and security forces - was also launched.

Turkey's government is set to include Turkish mothers living abroad in a newly introduced incentive program to encourage procreation, which offers 300 Turkish Liras for a couple's first child, 400 liras for the second, and 600 liras for the third.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now only awaiting official confirmation that he will become the country's next president.

After almost all of the ballots cast at Sunday's first-ever presidential vote in Turkey were counted, he had 51.8% of the votes.