Binali Yıldırım

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has denied that Turkey has a "Kurdish problem," saying there is instead only an outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) "terror problem" that hinders development in the country's eastern and southeastern provinces.

Turkish politics continues to be roiled by the debate over the 1923 Lausanne Treaty that established the Republic of Turkey, after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan derided it as "not a victory." 

Statement to be made from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the opposition.

Senior government officials and Turkey's top soldier have all dismissed the possibility of a follow-up putsch attempt by the Gülenist movement on the grounds that the network has no potential to stage a coup. 

On the eve of the opening of the Turkish parliament's new legislative year, social democratic main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Sept.

On Sept. 28 agencies reported that the last two hospitals serving in the east of the Syrian city of Aleppo were bombed by Syrian or Russian planes.

Everyone agrees that if the coup attempt on July 15 had succeeded, Turkey's economy would have gone into a tailspin. The steps taken by the government under its "emergency rule," however, also appear to be achieving the same result. 

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson paid a visit to the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Sept. 26, holding a series of meetings with Turkish officials and Syrians taking refuge in government camps.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson arrived in the southeastern province of Gaziantep on Sept. 26 as a part of his two-day trip to Turkey to visit Syrian refugees, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson is to visit Ankara between Sept. 25-27 to express solidarity after the failed July 15 coup, according to a written statement issued by Turkish Foreign Ministry on Sept. 25. 

Turkey's social democratic main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) filed a complaint to the Constitutional Court on Sept.