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The far right -- acting like a united group with a common agenda -- is posing a great danger to Europe, the spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party said on May 22.

Pro-government Turkish daily Ak?am has been sentenced to pay 6,000 Turkish Liras in compensation to former Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Umut Oran for publishing a manufactured story alleging an assassination plot against President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's daughter, Sümeyye Erdo?an, which they had claimed involved Oran, daily Cumhuriyet reported on April 20.

A Turkish man has succumbed to his wounds after setting himself on fire in the southern province of Antalya on Feb. 8 in protest at his unemployment. 

A Turkish woman was sentenced to 11 months in prison on Jan. 20 for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an by shouting and directing a hand gesture toward him in the Aegean province of ?zmir in 2014.

A "return to factory settings" is a concept that dominated the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AK Party) agenda after the June 7 elections. However, from that day on, seemingly, the possibility of going back to factory settings does not make a portion of the AK Party happy. Somehow, they see it as a "betrayal" to return to factory settings. 

The level of politics has sunk twenty thousand leagues under the sea?

Those who are more royalist than the king are attacking everyone. It has been like this for some time.

A new day is starting. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) is not only nominating its presidential candidate; it is also closing one chapter and opening another one.

We will go through a stage when we will be very curious. We will waste time with a lot of gossip, scenarios and names.