Recep Tayyip Erdogan

It is hardly surprising to read the statements from the Turkish Presidential Palace regarding a different approach to the Kurdish issue after CIA Director Mike Pompeo's visit to Ankara. İlnur Çevik, a former journalist and currently advisor to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Turkey may start looking at the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) from a different perspective.

RATEM, a civil sector organization bringing together Turkish media outlets, has praised the role of the media in defeating the July 15, 2016, coup attempt at a Media and Democracy Awards ceremony in parliament on Feb. 14. 

Volatilities in foreign exchange rates will prove temporary and limited, and the dollar-Turkish Lira parity has already started to decline, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in an address to his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group on Feb. 14.

The Kurdish-issue focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has denied claims that it will boycott Turkey's upcoming constitutional referendum. 

HDP deputy Filiz Kerestecioğlu on Feb. 13 vowed that the HDP would not boycott the referendum and would vote "no" in every poll. 

The Presidency is already preparing a to-do list to immediately carry out certain regulations stated in the constitutional amendment ushering in a shift to an executive presidency in the event that the system change is approved in the referendum on April 16. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, and Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of the right wing Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have kicked off their "yes" campaigns for the referendum on constitutional changes to be held on April 16. 

Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head, Hakan Fidan, will visit Berlin in the near future as an invitee of the head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Bruno Kahl, Deutsche Welle Türkçe reported on its website Feb. 13.

Turkey will advance to Manbij and Raqqa in Syria if Ankara reaches a consensus with coalition forces, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said Feb. 13. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on the Muslim world to unite against the wars and terrorism affecting everyone in the region.

"The time has come for the whole region, all of the Islamic world, and even [all of] humanity to unite and act together for its future," said Erdoğan during a speech at a conference in the Bahraini capital Manama on Feb. 13. 

The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has slammed President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, saying they used a polarizing and divisive language by accusing naysayers of the upcoming referendum of siding with terrorists.