Bülent Turan

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has finalized the appointment of 68 deputy ministers to serve in the newly formed cabinet following the May 14 elections.

The appointment decision, signed by Erdoğan, was published in the Official Gazette on June 22.

Political parties submitted their parliamentary candidate lists for May 14 polls to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) on April 9.

The ruling People's Alliance, made up of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) , has strongly criticized main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu who declared that he won't pay his electricity bills until the recent hikes are withdrawn.

A powerful snowstorm that crippled Turkey's largest city has become the subject of a heated political debate, with officials from the ruling Justice and Developed Party (AKP) accusing Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu of failing to respond to the crisis properly.

Turkey's ruling AKP will propose the establishment of a parliamentary friendship group with Egypt, a senior party lawmaker said on April 20.

The rector of Pamukkale University, Hüseyin Bağ, has been suspended from his post after reports that he gave a job to his wife in the university, Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) said on Aug. 10.

The move comes after reports that he had given his wife a job as a teaching assistant went viral on social media.

It is not possible for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to withdraw its paid military service bill, the party's group deputy chair Bülent Turan said on June 12.

The head of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has strongly criticized the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) for holding a march from Ankara to Istanbul after a lawmaker's arrest, saying the party would be responsible if its members come face to face with counter-groups on the road. 

The arrest of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Istanbul lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu has triggered reactions from Turkey's political parties, with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) saying the arrest was a result of the lifting of parliamentary immunities.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation’s most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the nation.