Presidents of Turkey

Pope Francis is set to be the first house guest at Turkey's new presidential palace during a visit to Turkey at the end of the month.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 29, a tradition has come to an end. From now on, when Çankaya is mentioned, we will not think of the office of the president.

As far as I can monitor from the press, what the new unlicensed building will be called is not yet clear; a consensus has not been reached on a common name.

The recipients of this year’s Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards were announced Oct. 29, with famous actress Hülya Koçyiğit leading the list of winners.

Koçyiğit took home the award in the field of cinema as Niyazi Sayın won in the field of music, Alev Alatlı was honored in literature and Professor Engin Akarlı was selected for history.

As Turkey is embroiled in troubles emanating from the civil war in neighbor Syria on the 91st anniversary of the foundation of the Turkish Republic, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used the occasion to issue a message in support of soldiers defending the 700-year-old tomb of Suleyman Shah, a Turkish enclave in northern Syria.

Today, on Oct. 29, the Turkish Republic is celebrating its 91st birthday.

As the 12th President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has decided not to use the palace on top of Ankara’s Çankaya Hill for the celebration, unlike all his predecessors including the founder of the Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Ankara asked NATO to develop contingency plans for Turkey when the unrest in Syria first started and the alliance made plans taking many possibilities into account, İsmet Yılmaz says

Family members of Turkey's late president Özal were wiretapped by prosecutors as suspects after his death, it has been revealed, rekindling the debate over the role of anonymous witnesses

They badmouthed Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. They described, excuse me, those generations that have made the “walk to the West” - the direction of civilization of the national awakening - as “drunkards.”

Outgoing President Abdullah Gül will leave Ankara and depart for Istanbul, where he plans to reside in the near future, after the inauguration ceremony for President-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 28.

Some 6,000 people formed a giant portrait of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, with their bodies on Aug. 26, the anniversary of the 1922 Battle of Dumlupınar, one of the final battles in Turkey’s War of Independence.