Ali Alkan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an defined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) as the number one threat to Turkey. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is also a threat but it comes after the PKK, according to Erdo?an, who talked to CNN international the other day.

A non-commissioned female officer, accompanying the mother of a killed soldier during his funeral, took the attention of the media when she said that rich people would not become soldiers nor be martyred, while trying to soothe the mother?s pain.

Turkey's gendarmerie general command is set to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the uniformed lieutenant colonel who blasted senior politicians during the funeral ceremony of his killed soldier brother, according to sources. 

I had written an article on the night of June 7 when the first results of the election were revealed and said, ?He will have to force early elections.?

This is what I had written: ?In normal democracies, a coalition will be formed. Reaching a consensus is good.

A lieutenant colonel?s angry rebuke during the funeral ceremony for his soldier brother has been added to the increasing number of protests by mourners accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the government over the spike in violence ahead of early elections in Turkey.

One soldier has been killed in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r after outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants opened fire at gendarmerie forces guarding a hydroelectric plant while another army lieutenant also died in clashes in ??rnak.

An army captain was killed when militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacked a military outpost in southeastern Turkey late Aug. 21.

PKK militants targeted a gendarmerie outpost in the Beytü??ebap district of the ??rnak province at 9.30 p.m. Captain Ali Alkan and two more soldiers were wounded in the clash that continued for an hour, Turkish media reports said.

Both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the head of Turkey?s Constitutional Court have denied there is any tension between them, after joining a luncheon hosted by the former at the presidential palace in Ankara.

Because various laws that are interfering with justice have come one after the other in a nonstop fashion, I call them jigsaw puzzles.

The head of the Supreme Court of Appeals has criticized planned changes at the body, which introduce new departments and adjust the appointment system for judges and prosecutors, describing the plans as an “open government intervention” in the judiciary.