Prime Ministry

A commission at the Turkish Parliament has approved a much-debated omnibus bill giving authority to the prime minister or any of his ministers to block any website without a court order for a broad range of reasons.

The presidential emblem at the entrance of the old Çankaya Palace in Ankara has been removed, as the transfer of all service units to the new presidential palace has now been completed.

While political parties have boosted their efforts for the general elections in June, Turkey?s current intelligence chief is among the people who are expected to run for the elections to join the ruling party, according to sources.

A new draft mining law has been passed by Turkey's Parliamentary Commission on Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources and Information Technology, in response to a series of deadly accidents that hit headlines last year.

The Justice and Development Party?s (AKP) members of a parliamentary panel tasked with probing graft claims against four ex-ministers originally intended to send them to the top court, but an intervention by President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an changed their minds, it has emerged.

Turkey's prime minister or any of his ministers will have the right to block any website without a court ruling for broad reasons such as "protection of public order," according to a new omnibus bill.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has marked a first today in presiding over a cabinet meeting in line with earlier statements that he will not be a ?protocol president? ? even if it comes at the cost of weakening Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu?s authority and influence in the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

Turkish President Tayyip Erdo?an convenes the board of ministers in his new Presidential Palace today on Jan. 19 for the first time since he was elected to his new post after the Aug. 10, 2014, election.

TÜS?AD?s outgoing leader, who is at odds with the government and the president over his recent remarks, stands behind his words, adding that the business group generates some 85 percent of taxes in Turkey Haluk Dinçer, the outgoing head of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜS?AD), has stressed that the leading business organization generates around 85 percent of the taxes i

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu responded to questions at the airport over French terror suspect Hayat Boumeddiene before leaving Turkey to attend the support rally in Paris for France on Jan. 11.