Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Turkey's Interior Ministry suspends 1,218 more gendarmerie personnel

The Interior Ministry suspended 1,218 gendarmerie personnel from duty on Nov. 3 in the latest measure in the probe into the failed July 15 coup attempt, believed to have been masterminded by the Gülen movement.

The suspended personnel include 419 officers and 604 sergeants, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

A pull effect for nationalists is a push effect for democrats in Turkey

I first met the journalist Kadri Gürsel more than 20 years ago. But I got to know him better after I moved to Istanbul from Ankara in 2005, when I began to see him more frequently. Each time we met, developments in Turkey had taken a worse turn than they were in our previous meetings.

Turkey debates the non-retroactive death penalty

A reinstatement of capital punishment appears to be in the pipeline in Turkey. Although it looks like Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli opened the door for it, it was actually President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who initially gave the signal that capital punishment would be included in the government's constitutional draft. 

Turkey turns its back on Europe

The operation against daily Cumhuriyet beggars belief. A paper that was hounded not so long ago by prosecutors who are accused today of acting at the behest of Fethullah Gülen - the Islamic cleric said to have masterminded the July 15 coup attempt - is now being accused of supporting Gülen.

Germany To Allocate EUR 2.6 B More for Migrants

The Cabinet of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has approved an additional EUR 2.6 B for 2016 in order to deal with the influx of migrants, reported AVC News.

On Wednesday, the Finance Ministry announced that the increase in funds means that the federal government will allocate to provinces a total of EUR 9.5 B for 2016.

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