Prime Ministry

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a meeting with Defense Minister Fikri Işık at the Beylerbeyi Palace in Istanbul on Feb. 27. 

Reports said the president would also meet with Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar later in the day.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım held an announced meeting with Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar on Feb. 27 after the military voiced its disturbance over a series of criticisms and reports targeting Turkey's top soldier. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım for being ineffective and easily influenced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. 

"Why is the Prime Ministry being removed with the constitutional changes?" Kılıçdaroğlu told Doğan News Agency in an interview on Feb. 23. 

There are no plans to grant citizenship to Syrians before the upcoming referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system, Prime Ministry sources have said. 

The opposition has slammed the ruling party over the termination of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ's parliamentary status, even as the prime minister hinted at further dismissals. 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ, who has been in jail for three months on terror charges, has lost her parliamentary status for a prison sentence she received in a previous case. 

A prosecutor who called on National Intelligence Agency (MİT) Chief Hakan Fidan to provide testimony in 2012 has been arrested on charges of links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), which is widely believed to have masterminded the July 2016 failed coup attempt. 

Turkey is going to a crucial referendum on a constitutional change for a radical shift in its administrative system from a parliamentary to an executive presidential system on April 16.

There was an important meeting between President Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım in Istanbul on Feb. 5.

The Turkish parliament sent the constitutional amendments that will bring drastic changes to the country's political system for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's approval on Feb. 2, 12 days after it passed the parliament by exceeding the 330-vote threshold to bring it to a referendum.