Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

MHP head Bahçeli chastises PM for rushing new charter unilaterally

Turkey's nationalist opposition leader has rebuked Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu for hurrying up the process of drafting a new constitution in a "patronizing" manner which ignores the priorities of Turkey's opposition parties, including his Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

The new dictate charter

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said his administration was determined to undertake whatever possible to finish within a month the writing of a new constitution that will carry Turkey to a Turkish-style presidential rule.

Press freedom in Turkey confined to court corridors: Hürriyet editor-in-chief

Freedom of the press in Turkey has been confined to court corridors in 2016, said Sedat Ergin, the editor-in chief of daily Hürriyet, who appeared before an Istanbul court on March 25 on charges of "insulting" the president.

The Bak?rköy Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened the case after investigating a tweet posted on Hürriyet's Twitter account on Sept. 6, 2015.

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