Justice and Development Party

President Erdoğan is set to extend his reach even further with plans to begin chairing Cabinet meetings starting next month, his aide says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will begin chairing meetings of the Cabinet in the upcoming year, one of his close aides has announced, while ruling out any conflict of authority between the president and the prime minister.

Once the champion of individual freedoms, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is now pushing an ultra-conservative and Islamist agenda, as party officials feel their public support is strong enough to transform the country.

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has proposed to designate an official "state emblem" for the Republic of Turkey, stating that such an emblem would contribute to the "institutional personality of the state."

Last year, a week from today on Dec. 17, Istanbul prosecutors opened the biggest ever corruption probe in Turkey.

Turkish Defense Minister İsmet Yılmaz has denied recent claims that his relative had been recruited by the Telecommunications Directorate (TİB) without completing an exam.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that the government has decided to lift visa requirements for Polish citizens, to "boost interaction" between the two countries.

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.

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

The Constitutional Court’s decision to accept an “admissible” application by three small political parties, which stand on the fringes of the political spectrum, to have the 10 percent electoral threshold reduced has seriously agitated members of the government.

If the Constitutional Court disregards protecting stability in its eventual decision over lowering the 10 percent threshold for representation at Parliament, then "the people will not accept it," Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Dec. 8.