Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed Dec. 3 to look after the democratic parliamentary system, in a party rally held in the southern Adana province against changing the state's administrative system into a presidential system. 

Turkey is seeking to conduct trade with Russia, China and Iran in local currencies, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Dec. 3. 

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a shopping mall in Istanbul, Erdoğan said that he had proposed Russian President Vladimir Putin to conduct trade between the two countries with local currencies. 

The Prime Minister's Office said the government has not ruled out a bilateral meeting between Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the January 12 multiparty summit concerning Cyprus that Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci agreed on late Thursday night.

The Athens Council of Appeals Court Judges will on Tuesday hear the appeals against extradition of three of the eight Turkish military officers who fled to Greece in July following a failed coup in Turkey.

Turkey's main stock exchange, Borsa Istanbul, has become the first institution to convert all of its cash assets into the Turkish Lira a few hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on people and institutions to back the struggling currency against the U.S. dollar.   

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan approved a bill on Dec. 2 that will gradually increase sentences for the sexual abuse of children nine days before a Constitutional Court annulment over the content of the crime goes into effect. 

According to the new law, there will be a distinction made between victims aged under 12 and those aged between 12 and 18.

The Turkish Parliament passed a bill ratifying an intergovernmental agreement with Russia on building the Turkish Stream gas pipeline late on Dec. 1.

Ankara and Moscow signed the gas pipeline agreement in Istanbul on Oct. 10 after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting in a bid to further normalize ties after the jet crisis. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Turkish citizens on Dec. 2 to convert their foreign exchange into gold or the Turkish Lira, adding that there was no option other than cutting interest rates to spur growth.

Following his remarks in Ankara, the lira saw fresh lows against the U.S. dollar.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on Turkish citizens on Dec. 2 to convert their foreign exchange into gold or the Turkish Lira, adding that there was no option other than cutting interest rates to spur growth.

Following his remarks in Ankara, the lira saw fresh lows against the U.S. dollar.

In 2004 when the then prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was receiving praise after praise from the West's blind leaders for his "reformism and supreme democratic credentials," he abruptly reverted to his Islamist self: He drafted a bill that would outlaw adultery.