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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will visit the Turkish capital of Ankara on Jan. 12 to discuss the repercussions of the U.N. Security Council's failure to adopt a draft resolution setting a deadline for the ending of Israeli occupation, a Palestinian diplomat has said.

The leader of the main opposition party has strongly reacted against nine ruling party lawmakers who voted against sending four former ministers to the Supreme Council over corruption claims, calling them "dishonorable and remorseless."

An investigative commission at Turkey?s Parliament saw no need for the trial of four former ministers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) over corruption allegations, thanks to the dominant votes of the AK Parti MPs at the commission on Jan. 5.

An Investigation Commission looking into the corruption allegations against four former ministers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) is scheduled to hold a critical vote today, Jan. 5.

An outlawed Turkish Marxist group on Jan. 2 said it was behind an attempted attack on an Ottoman-era Istanbul palace that formerly held the offices of President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
      

The parliamentary elections scheduled for June is likely to be the major political issue of Turkey in 2015.

It is also likely that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) will stay in power for another four years, since no major shift in the political spectrum has been observed in the from two elections last year; the locals in March and presidential in August.

Both Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is focused on the Kurdish problem, are giving messages one after another these days about an upswing in talks amid reports of escalated tension in the predominantly Kurdish east and southeast of the country.

The new election campaign song of Turkey's ruling party praises Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu to the skies, saluting him a "wise, brave man" who is also a "true grandson of the Ottomans."

Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas' political bureau, has made a surprise appearance at an event of Turkey's ruling party, endorsing the Turkish leaders and voicing his hope to "liberate Palestine and Jerusalem" together with them in the future.

Everything has started to unfold at a faster pace in Turkey’s Kurdish peace bid, and in an extremely symbolic manner.