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Parliament’s General Assembly has voted to extend its work until Aug. 21, upon a proposal by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

This is not the first postponement of Parliament’s recess. With the latest postponement, the ruling party aims at completing deliberations over an omnibus law including measures on more than 170 articles on different topics.

As expected, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the presidential elections last Sunday, Aug. 10. His vote, around 52 percent, was in fact a bit lower then what he and his supporters expected. Yet still, it was a decisive victory for a leader who has already spent 12 years in power and against whom many parties and camps joined forces.

It became a thriller for those who like political scenarios that President Abdullah Gül announced he will go back to his party the Justice and Development Party (AKP) after his term ends and right after this announcement, the AKP’s authorized body set the date for the extraordinary congress for Aug. 27.
This actually is not a surprise.

Swords were sharpened. The first salvoes were fired. President Abdullah Gül declared his decision to return to his former Justice and Development Party (AKP) once his tenure in office ends on Aug. 28.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was elected as the country's 12th President on Aug. 10, has told that the outgoing President Abdullah Gül's much-debated return to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was "natural."

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic confirmed Tuesday that he will meet in Berlin on August 28 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who started an initiative to organize a conference on economic potentials and prospects of the Western Balkans.

An adviser to Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has been appointed as a chief adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office two weeks before the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) elects its new leader.

The appointment of Ali Sarıkaya was interpreted on Aug. 12 as yet another sign that Davutoğlu could soon become prime minister.

President-elect, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has turned to grassroots consultation and inter-party surveys in the search for his successor as party leader and prime minister, as the plot thickens in a possible power struggle between Erdoğan and outgoing President Abdullah Gül.

The first thing that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan did after getting elected as the country’s 12th president on Aug. 10 was to call the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AK Parti) main executive body for a meeting on Aug. 11.

His plan was simple:

Serbia's Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said that Serbia is about to appoint 20 new ambassadors, including to US and China, in the next four months.

The initial plan was to appoint ten new ambassadors to posts in July. However, Dacic told the daily newspaper Danas on August 8 that there had been a delay after the ministry realised the number needed to be doubled.