Justice and Development Party

Erdoğan proves to be a ‘sweating president’ in first 100 days in office

As his first 100 days in office show, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has certainly lived up to his words of being a “sweating president,” as he had claimed before he was voted in as Turkey’s first ever directly elected president in August.

A new threat looming Turkey's horizon: Brain drain

Listening to our colleagues from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, we, a group of Turkish journalists and academics, felt we were not alone in our frustration over issues like the lack of public reaction to corruption allegations, politicians’ efforts to cover up corruption allegations (at times on ridiculous grounds), governments’ lust to bypass or erode laws, and state officials

Dot, dot, dot…

At one of Ankara’s large hotels, on the sidelines of an intellectual exercise of state, individual, democracy, power and rotten politics, I was talking with Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat on the transformation within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

CHP says AKP officials’ relatives are appointed to state bureaucracy without exams

Hundreds of relatives and friends of Cabinet members and ruling party MPs have been appointed to state positions without passing the required examination, a spokesperson for Turkey's main opposition party has claimed, also producing a list detailing these recently-appointed public officials and their relations with the ruling party.

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