Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

The Netherlands’ largest newspaper ‘De Telegraaph’ has published a front page cartoon depicting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan as an ape trampling on freedom of speech in Europe!

Turkey has asked authorities in Geneva to remove an exhibition picture that blames President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for the death of a Turkish teen injured during anti-government demonstrations, a Swiss official said April 25.    

The overturning by Turkey's top court of appeal of the so-called "Ergenekon coup plot trial," which was initiated in 2007 and lasted until 2011, is being hailed as one of the most significant legal developments in recent Turkish history. 

To call a state democratic and governed by rule of law, the presence of independent and impartial judiciary and judges is necessary, the president of Turkey's Constitutional Court stated in a speech attended by the country's president.

The editor-in-chief of the daily Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, was fined 28,650 Turkish Liras for "insulting" then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, his son Bilal Erdo?an and seven others, a court ruled on April 25. 

As the U.S. presidential elections near, many people, including President Barack Obama himself, have been engaging in a reassessment of the last eight years of American foreign policy.

For Turkey, the tumultuous course of Turkish-American relations during the Obama administration has exhibited parallels to the challenges Ankara has faced in the international arena.

The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government supported the "Ergenekon" coup plot case between 2007 and 2011, according to Turkey's former military chief, ?lker Ba?bu?, who claimed the main actors behind the conspiracy were the sympathizers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. 

Ebru Umar, a Dutch columnist of Turkish descent was arrested in Turkey for comments she had published in Dutch newspaper ‘Metro’ against Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan. Among other things, she had characterised Erdogan as a ‘megalomaniac dictator’ and a ‘Sultan’, calling on him to ‘go f%&*@ck himself’.

Many in Nicosia, Athens, Brussels and Washington are confident - and some concerned - that the Cyprus issue may be resolved by the end of the year. In the US, especially, top officials are eager for this to happen by the end of 2016, as every US government likes to wrap up as many international affairs as possible before their term ends so as to boost its legacy.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassador of the Netherlands earlier this week in order to voice unease over cartoons depicting President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, while the Dutch ambassador used the opportunity to ask Turkish authorities to clarify a call made to Turks in the Netherlands to report individuals who insult Turkey or its president.