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Leaders of the six opposition parties meet for coalition protocol

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, İYİ (Good) Party chair Meral Akşener, Democrat Party chair Gültekin Uysal, Felicity Party head Temel Karamollaoğlu, Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) leader Ali Babacan and Future Party chair Ahmet Davutoğlu met for the fifth time on July 3 at the İYİ Party headquarters.

Six-way opposition alliance outlines main principles, objectives

Turkey's six-way opposition alliance has outlined the main principles and objectives it will pursue when it comes to power in the next elections, highlighting the need for upgrading democracy and human rights under a strengthened parliamentary system based on a strictly implemented principle of separation of powers.

Turkish fishermen in Black Sea closely watch navy boats

Turkish fisherman Şahin Afsüt fears the worst: Hitting a mine and "disappearing underwater in the blink of an eye."

Like many fishermen in Rumelifeneri, a village set on the rocks of the Bosphorus in northern Istanbul, Afsüt and his team remain in port since the discovery of a drifting mine last month in the Black Sea.

MHP leader downplays ‘strengthened parliamentary system’ meeting

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has downplayed a meeting of six opposition parties at the weekend held to shape a road map for a "strengthened parliamentary system."

"They do not have presidential candidates, they do not have a strategy and they do not have the slightest preparation for the future," he said.

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