AKP

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has slammed a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) member over his controversial remarks on "founding a new state," which had prompted outrage from opposition parties. 

Yıldırım criticized AKP member Ayhan Oğan after the latter said the government is "building a new state and its founding leader is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan."

The leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has slammed a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) member over his much-debated remarks on "founding a new state." 

MHP head Devlet Bahçeli criticized AKP member Ayhan Oğan after the latter said that "they are building a new state and its founding leader is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan."

Sister of the Family Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, Ayşe Sayan, will be appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Kuwait according to a new degree of the Foreign Ministry. 

Ayşe Sayan was formed deputy undersecretary of the family ministry, yet she resigned after her sister was assigned is the minister. 

Merve Kavakçı, who was banned from parliament in 1999 after she joined an oath ceremony in parliament wearing a headscarf following her election as a lawmaker from now defunct Virtue Party (FP), will be appointed as ambassador to Kuala Lumpur.  

Since the April 16 referendum that expanded the authority of the presidency, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been urging Turkey’s parliament to make drastic changes to its bylaws and internal regulations.

Meral Aksener doesn’t run from fights. Turkey’s former interior minister is known informally as asena, or she-wolf. When the country’s military took steps in 1997 to remove the government from power, she took a stand against its leaders.

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has slammed a report prepared by a parliamentary commission inquiring the July 15, 2016, coup attempt for accusing the opposition party of working with and encouraging the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have orchestrated the attempted takeover. 

The Kurdish opening initiated by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem as well as the famous "zero problems with neighbors" policy was a reflection of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's famous "peace at home, peace in the world" motto. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will not allow "provocations" to derail its "justice march" from Ankara to Istanbul, CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on June 21 on the seventh day of the march.

"We have completed 100 kilometers so far. Were there any windows broken or was traffic hindered? No," Kılıçdaroğlu told private broadcaster Fox TV on June 21.

The opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has criticized a draft report prepared by a parliamentary commission formed to investigate the July 15, 2016 coup attempt, saying that the political and financial leg of the coup attempt was not revealed by "obstacles put by AKP [ruling Justice and Development Party] members of the commission."