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Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Republican People's Party (CHP) lawmakers have agreed on specifying the education backgrounds of mediators, ruling that they all have to be law graduates, despite Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ's objection.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has finalized preparations for a draft of a constitutional amendment, which will change the country's parliamentary system to an executive presidency, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Oct. 23. 

The leaders of Turkey's ruling and nationalist opposition parties have met to discuss efforts to write a new constitution that would also impose a presidential system, a week after the latter signaled his potential support for such a change. 

A total of four ministers and 58 Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies and mayors were using the ByLock and Eagle applications, two mobile applications that are suspected to have been used as an internal communication means among Gülenists, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Aytun Çıray said Oct. 17.

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) politician was killed by outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants in the Dicle district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Oct. 11, marking the second such killing by the group in two days.

PKK militants opened fire on Deryan Aktert, the AKP's district chairman in Dicle, while he was at his workplace.        

A senior official from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has vowed that the party will show "zero tolerance" in clearing itself of sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, denying reports that some Gülenists have been protected by high-ranking AKP officials. 

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) will have to repay to the Treasury some expenses illegally claimed back in 2011, the Constitutional Court ruled on April 14. 

The ruling came after the court audited political parties' expenses for the year 2011.  

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Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmu? has voiced optimism for finding enough support to take a new constitution to a referendum with the help of deputies from the opposition parties.

Writing a new constitution is a "must" for this parliamentary term, Kurtulmu? said on March 12.

Kar??yaka Municipality's March 8 posters, which cap sentences by AKP members with the slogan "none of your business," coincide with Davuto?lu's first post-election visit to ?zmirThe sentence needs to be delivered with one hand firmly on your belly, with the elbow provocatively jutted out, as if it could be used to deliver a blow to the chest of your opponent.