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As the region boils with the current crisis between Qatar and its neighbors, Turkey's domestic agenda is still locked in the coup trials and the purges in government. There is no major political breakthrough in the court cases, but another high-level politician's son-in-law has been put behind bars.

The values of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are "rapidly weakening," former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, commenting on a file that emerged online in 2016 that called for the resignation of several figures from the AKP. 

The arrested son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç told an Ankara judge that he had accepted the presidential post of a Gülen-affiliated institution because Arınç told him it would be "beneficial" for him to be in charge of such an organization.

An Ankara court on June 5 ordered the arrest of the son-in-law of former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç after police detained him as a part of the ongoing investigation into the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ), accused of being behind the failed July 2016 coup attempt.

Ekrem Yeter was detained at his residence and later referred to the prosecutor's office to testify.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is readying to hold an extraordinary congress which is expected to be attended by thousands, as the party prepares to choose President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as its leader again. 

TV journalist Hakan Çelik asked an interesting question to Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on private broadcaster CNN Türk in an interview on the evening of April 1: How will former President Abdullah Gül and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu vote in the referendum on April 16?

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) brought together prominent party figures, past and present, in a bid to mobilize them ahead of the April 16 referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system, though former President Abdullah Gül and former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu were not present at the meeting. 

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office ordered the detention of 45 people over the controversial "Cosmic Room" investigation, opened back in 2009 following an alleged plot to assassinate former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç. Some 23 of those on the detention list were detained by police at various addresses, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

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Turkey should mend fences with Egypt, as the rest of the world sees Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's government as "normal," Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said in an interview with Al Jazeera.