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Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, a key figure responsible for the economy, will continue to be part of the economy team in the next government, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said, though questions remain as Babacan cannot run for parliament because of the ruling party?s internal three-term limit.

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç has declared that Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek is corrupt and has "no manners," in an unusually frank speech amid intra-government clashes, hours after the latter called for his resignation.

Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek has called on Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar?nç after he engaged in a war of words with President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an over the Kurdish peace process.

Turkey's ruling party has challenged opposition parties over a constitutional amendment that makes party closures much more difficult and called on them to support the move if they are really against the closure of political parties.

At least five Turkish lawmakers were wounded in a brawl between Turkey's opposing parties during a discussion on a controversial security bill that erupted early on Wednesday. Opposition legislators tried to delay the start of a debate on the controversial bill that would limit the right to protest and give police greater authority to search and arrest people.

Ahmet Davuto?lu became prime minister at the beginning of September. Today is Feb. 16. In other words, Davuto?lu has been the prime minister for roughly five and a half months and he has visited 56 cities during that time. If we count the past weekend, he will have visited 61 cities to deliver speeches in total.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has rejected claims that ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmakers were pressured to vote against sending four former ministers to the country's top court, stressing that it was "only natural" for AKP deputies to vote differently.

The main opposition party has strongly reacted to the prime minister, who argued that the social democrat party was defending a Turkish daily?s decision to reprint cartoons featuring Prophet Muhammad, and accused him of exploiting religion for politics.

Beyond all the political and religious debates about Charlie Hebdo and the politics of Islam, there lies the harsh reality of family life and a woman?s role in society. As the West becomes more secular and women opt to become working mothers, Turkey is turning quite the opposite way.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has said he will allow his lawmakers to freely exercise their consciences in an upcoming parliamentary vote on whether to send four former ministers to the Supreme Council, adding that his MPs are of a "collective mind."