AK Party

The day after the Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) scored its surprising election victory, it has reopened the issue of a new constitution based on a shift from the current parliamentary system to a presidential system.

Hundreds of Kosovars in the southern town of Prizren joined the celebration of the Justice and Development (AK) party's victory on Sunday, some carrying banners with Erdogan's picture and chanting his party's slogans, others driving around waving Turkish flags.

Turkish authorities have confirmed the identity of one of two suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside Ankara's main train station on Oct. 10, killing 102 people, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has stated.

The political backstage of Ankara was stirred at lunchtime on Sept. 17, when President Tayyip Erdo?an paid an unplanned visit to Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to perform Friday prayers together in the mosque inside the Çankaya prime ministerial - formerly presidential - compound on top of the capital?s Çankaya Hill. 

Turkey has been conducting a ?resolution process? since the end of 2012 with the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, to end PKK terror. 

In accounts of the Justice and Development Party?s (AK Party) Sept. 12 congress, most comments have suggested that ?the chief has seized the party,? or ?the chief held the reigns and reinforced his dominance,? or ?the chief drew up the party?s 50-member decision-making committee (MKYK) list,? or ?he decided everything alone,? or ?he crossed out all the names close to Davuto?lu,?

Turkey's ruling AK Party is seen falling short of the votes needed to form a single-party government in a snap election on Nov. 1 with 41.7 percent of votes, up from 40.9 percent in the June election, pollster Metropoll found in its latest survey. 

Dear lieutenant colonel Mehmet Bey,

When you were holding the Turkish flag-wrapped coffin of your soldier brother, crying "Ali, Ali?"

I felt your pain deep inside of me,

You were revolting with the pain of having lost your brother.

?They have not started the real fight yet,? my source told me. He was a man from Tunceli, in his 50s, once a leading member of a leftist group, now the founder of an NGO. He was in touch with all Kurdish groups, including the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and the leadership of the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP).

Turkey?s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s aides with a stinging tweet, urging ?rabies vaccinations? for all of them except one.