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Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has been blasting European institutions, the EU and others over their criticism of media freedom, judicial independence and the general quality of democracy here.

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition has called on all opposition groups to stand against the “coup plotted by the government against democracy,” following raids against members of the Gülen movement.

Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu also expressed concern that the mainstream media "could soon feel the government’s wrath."

The Turkish government will at some point address the public on the issue of corruption and this should be both convincing and transparent, according to Etyen Mahçupyan, a chief adviser to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.

"No parties or governments can escape from this forever. This is not a file that can be hidden forever," Mahçupyan said in an interview with daily Hürriyet.

Turkish police raided the Zaman media group headquarters in Istanbul on Dec. 14, as part of an operation anticipated for the last few days.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said he has two documents proving that the main opposition Republican People Party's (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu engaged in nepotism during his tenure as the head of the country's social security institution.

“Their plans to arrest me were ready,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his speech on Dec. 12 while hosting the Turkish Union of Chambers of Commerce (TOBB) in the new presidential palace in Ankara.

“Their plans to arrest me were ready,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in his speech on Dec. 12 while hosting the Turkish Union of Chambers of Commerce (TOBB) in the new presidential palace in Ankara.

The frequency of ups and downs in the talks between Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) government and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), aiming for a possible political settlement of the Kurdish problem, is on the rise.

A “debris of rights violations" has been created in Turkey by the government's practices, a main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy head said in a statement released Dec. 10, on the anniversary of Turkey’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Last year, a week from today on Dec. 17, Istanbul prosecutors opened the biggest ever corruption probe in Turkey.