Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The question is not mine. It is not even a question. It is an open curse to womanhood.

Turkey would never take steps to undermine NATO's collective defense and unity as spelled out in Article 5, the alliance's chief has said, recalling President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's commitment to NATO membership amid the revival of a discussion on Turkish participation in the Russian-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization, known as the Shanghai Five. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has revisited the Lausanne Treaty of 1923, which set the modern borders between Greece and Turkey, saying that it is not something that can't be discussed.

"In no way is it a sacred text, and of course we will discuss it," he said, according to Turkish news site A Haber.

According to a statement by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Treaty of Lausanne is neither holy scripture, nor the holy book, and should be reexamined in light of securing a better deal for Turkey.

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels have besieged the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held northern Syrian town of al-Bab from the west and have set their eyes on Manbij for their next offensive, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov. 22. 

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahçeli has said his party has completed its study of a constitutional change draft submitted by the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) and found it "generally reasonable." 

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced on Nov. 22 that his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) party will withdraw a controversial motion on the sexual abuse of minors, after the proposal faced a nation-wide backlash arguing that it would pave the way for abusers escaping without punishment. 

Turkey is not only going backward in leaps and bounds in terms of all the social gains secured under its secular republic, but has also started taking a step toward the primitive. It is mind-boggling that a government can even think of coming up with legislation that will allow men who rape minors to escape punishment if they marry the child they raped.

The July 15 coup attempt was one of the clearest examples of an attack on democracy in recent decades, a senior European politician said on Nov. 21.

Christine Muttonen, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), was among the first to condemn the coup, issuing a statement the following day.

Democracy is our lifeblood and whatever the conditions are, we will stand by it, said Doğan Holding Honorary Chairman Aydın Doğan in an associations' federation meeting he attended on Nov. 20 in his hometown Gümüşhane in the northern Black Sea region.