Veysi Kaynak

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced the much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle on July 19, changing four of his five deputy premiers while keeping the foreign team in place and introducing six new names. 

A headline in the July 5 edition of daily Hürriyet drew my attention.

Let's go back to the beginning of the week. There had been incidents in Istanbul and Ankara involving Syrian refugees. The atmosphere was very tense.

The four-century-old Sultanahmet Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, on Istanbul's historic peninsula, is slated to undergo a major restoration starting from next week, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has made a call for public tolerance following clashes between different ethnic groups in Ankara's Yenimahalle district.

Turkey will retaliate against any cross-border gunfire from the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria and will not remain silent in the face of anti-Turkey activities by terrorist groups abroad, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on June 29.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation’s most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the nation.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed nearly half of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) executive management to include members of the youth organizations and representatives from business circles during a congress in which he was re-elected as chairman.  

I was in Sarajevo for 12 hours last week with Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak. While we were walking through a graveyard to visit the grave of the wise Alija Izetbegovic, I noted the death dates carved on gravestones around. They were 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. 

Turkey was offered the opportunity to establish a cease-fire observation mission in the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib during a meeting last month in Astana in which Ankara, Moscow and Tehran agreed to declare de-conflict zones in regions controlled by the opposition groups, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told the Hürriyet Daily News on May 12.

Turkey's Interior Ministry has ended the activities of four foreign nongovernmental organizations operating in Turkey on the grounds of "national security," including the United States-based Mercy Corps, a Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News on condition of anonymity.