Recep Tayyip Erdo

A humorist as prime minister

The country has been passing through such horrible days that perhaps it would be great to have humorists occupying governmental seats. Even if there might be a president acting as if he has become a sultan or emperor, no one of course can claim that the prime minister and other ministers have started acting like imperial jokesters.

Last section of mammoth ?zmit Bay Bridge mounted

The last section of the mammoth ?zmit Bay Bridge, a key part of the Gebze-Orhangazi-?zmir Highway Project which will shorten the travel time between Istanbul and the Aegean city of ?zmir dramatically, was mounted in an official ceremony on April 21. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu attended the ceremony and mounted the last section of the bridge.  

Turkey rejected return to talks with PKK: HDP co-chair

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) wanted a return to talks with the Turkish government amid the worst violence in decades in the country's southeastern provinces, however Ankara rejected the overture, the co-chair of the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has claimed. 

Turkish newspaper to pay compensation to former CHP MP

Pro-government Turkish daily Ak?am has been sentenced to pay 6,000 Turkish Liras in compensation to former Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Umut Oran for publishing a manufactured story alleging an assassination plot against President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, which they had claimed involved Oran, daily Cumhuriyet reported on April 20.

Four arrested in Turkey's Gülen financial links probe, businessmen face jail time

Four people were arrested in a probe into the financial links of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen sympathizers on April 20 before dozens of other detainees, including board member of a leading construction company, were sent to court with an arrest demand by prosecutors on April 21. 

Four arrested in Gülen financial links probe, businessmen sent to prosecutors

Four people were arrested in a probe into the financial links of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen sympathizers on April 20 before another group of detainees, including board member of a leading construction company, were sent by police to a prosecutors to testify on April 21. 

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