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Coup panel report is cover up for ruling AKP: Opposition parties

Opposition parties that have members in a parliamentary investigation commission into the July 15, 2016, coup attempt are expected to file an objection against a draft report over claims that it was not reflecting the truth and worked as a cover up for the political leg of the coup. 

A party leader cannot be a president of 80 million: Main opposition leader

The leader of a political party cannot be the impartial president of all 80 million Turks, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned to the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a member on May 2. 

Erdoğan back in AKP

Was he back? Did he ever go? Indeed the parliamentary group meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on May 2 at the party headquarters will remove a source of deception and put an end to the era of the "impartial president" system after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan formally becomes an AKP member.

This longing should end, Turkish justice minister says on Erdoğan's return to party

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has commented on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's possible return to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), saying that "this longing has to end." 

Before being elected as president in 2014, Erdoğan was the leader of the AKP.

List of sacked academics to be re-evaluated: Deputy PM

A list of 330 academics who were sacked from their positions at Turkish universities will be re-evaluated by the Higher Education Board (YÖK) in the face of mounting reactions, including those coming from ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) members, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli said Feb. 9.

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