Politics of Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has repeated his disappointment with former head of the National Intelligence Organization (M?T) Hakan Fidan?s resignation from the post to run for parliament during the June 7 elections.

The state that journalism in our country has been pushed into in the past 10 years has unfortunately created and added adjectives such as ?Baransu with the suitcase? to our profession.

We already knew that President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan were not in total agreement about the policies applied, but we recently learned that there was a huge fundamental difference. Erdo?an is continuing to openly and publicly accuse, with harsh words, Babacan and Central Bank President Erdem Ba?ç??s policies.

Actually, we first heard of this concept while flying for a tour of the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP) in the presidential plane.

One the recurrent themes in contemporary Turkish politics is President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s uneasiness with Turkey?s Central Bank. In the past six months, Erdo?an has repeatedly called on the institution to lower interest rates, but the Central Bank has by and large resisted this political pressure.

Turkey's highest judicial board has opened the way for the trial of two prosecutors and one judge responsible for the massive corruption probe of December 2013.

The 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Judges and Prosecutors Board (HSYK) gave permission for the trial of prosecutors Celal Kara and Muammer Akka? and judge Süleyman Karaçöl.

Main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has described the recent talks - and tensions - between the government and the Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP), as little more than ?election propaganda.?

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) lead Devlet Bahçeli has likened the disarmament call by the jailed outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan to the Treaty of Sevres, which marked the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I.

Turkish journalist Soner Yalç?n appeared before court March 3 over allegations of insulting the president?s son Bilal Erdo?an in his book ?Lost Registry ? Erdo?an?s stolen case.?

Yalç?n denied the accusations during the trial in which he faces up to two years and eight months of prison with charges of ?insult via press or media outlets.?

A court has ordered President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to pay 10,000 Turkish Liras to the artist responsible for a sculpture in the northeastern province of Kars, which he had demanded the removal of and described as a ?freak.? 

During a Jan. 8, 2011 visit to Kars, then Prime Minister Erdo?an slammed the city?s new 35-meter-tall ?Monument to Humanity,? created by sculptor Mehmet Aksoy.