Nationalist Movement Party

Elections songs are not only popular gimmicks used by political parties during campaigns, but those parties are also apparently very possessive about their tunes.

With the general elections approaching, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has kicked off a debate by accusing the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of stealing a song they used back in 1999.

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.

A critical vote will take place today at a parliamentary inquiry commission on whether to send four ministers engulfed in the massive corruption and graft operation that was launched last year on Dec. 17 to the Supreme Council.

With the government unwilling to probe Iranian links with alleged graft in Turkey, Turkey's opposition plans a trip to Tehran to investigate Turkey's two biggest opposition parties plan to send separate delegations to Iran to receive related documents over alleged relations between four former ministers of the Turkish Cabinet, Iranian-origin businessmen Reza Zarrab and billionaire Iranian busi

Reza Zarrab, the controversial businessman involved in the bribery claims in Turkey's suppressed graft probe, has withdrawn his defamation case against Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli.

The decision came on Dec. 16, as the court hearing the case awaited documents from Iranian officials on his business ties in the neighboring country. 

The police raids on media organizations in Turkey are an “oddity that needs explanation,” according to Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, who accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of committing “murders of justice” to divert attention from bribery and corruption.

A trial against 35 individuals associated with Beşiktaş’s football fan group çArşı on charges of “attempting to overthrow the government” during last year’s Gezi Park protests has started at the Çağlayan Courthouse in central Istanbul.

Pious Turkish tea junkies are upset after glasses identical to the traditional, Anatolia-bred “slender-waist” cups were marketed as “the perfect whisky glass” by a U.S. spirits company and sold online.

A ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy's remarks suggesting that gay people should be able to serve as imams has stirred a fresh cultural debate on Turkey's heated political stage.

In response to this suggestion, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy İhsan Özkes focused on alleged double standards applied by the government on such issues.

According to World Bank data, Turkey’s Internet usage rate is 46 percent, which is above the global average. In social media usage, Turkey is at the world average of 45 percent, while 86 percent of Turkish Internet users have a Facebook account. The rate of Turks who say “I used Facebook last week” is 60 percent.