Ahmet Necdet Sezer

The 34th Ankara Music Festival, organized by the Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation, kicked off on April 4 with a concert by the Presidential Symphony Orchestra (CSO) at the MEB Şura Hall in Ankara. 

To mark the 110th birth year of late composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun, who served as an adviser to the foundation's executive board, the orchestra played his "Ayin Raksı" piece.  

"Those who are against the presidential system are wrong and unfortunately lying," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said. 

Here is the gist of that group's criticism though; this system accumulates power in a single hand, it aims at creating a one-man rule, whoever is elected, will establish an authoritarian regime if they get hold of those powers.

The government-supported constitutional amendment will concentrate power in one pair of hands "to avoid strife," President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, appealing to voters from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as the referendum campaign gathered momentum. 

Former Turkish President Abdullah Gül has said he never had any links with the Gülen group throughout his political career following a July 2016 coup attempt that was blamed on the group's U.S.-based leader, Fethullah Gülen.

Problems between the president and the prime minister are at their lowest point in Turkey's modern history, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has claimed, amid renewed debate on the government's desired shift to a presidential administrative system from the current parliamentary one. 

Only a few days after a flight attendant died of malaria in Istanbul, a fellow cabin attendant is being treated for the same disease in the western province of Afyonkarahisar. It is suspected that both caught the virus during a flight to Nigeria. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and former President Abdullah Gül held a surprise meeting in parliament on June 19, the first such meeting since the June 7 general election.

Erdo?an and Gül met in the office of Parliament Speaker Cemil Çiçek for around an hour.

An education official in the northwestern province of Bursa caused public indignation after his account was used to tweet a picture depicting Turkey?s founding father in hell for failing to comply with religious principles. 

Mustafa Karaaslan purportedly shared a picture of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk captioned with a fabricated quotation with the leader?s signature below. 

The hatred of women (misogyny) has always been here. It did not start 12 years ago. But it did escalate with the conservative administration. And it has reached its peak with the latest verdict of the Constitutional Court. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an appointed Mahmut Ak the new rector of Istanbul University, although he came second in the elections.

Ahmet Necdet Sezer, the predecessor of Abdullah Gül and Erdo?an at the presidency, had done the same.