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Turkey's main opposition leader has vowed in Germany on June 7 that his party will abolish the laws when it comes to power to prevent an "intelligence state."

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has described the Istanbul’s third airport at its groundbreaking ceremony as "a monument of victory," while slamming the Gezi Park protesters

Despite environmental impact and financing questions, Turkey breaks the ground for Istanbul’s third airport with a ceremony that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan attends Turkey holds a groundbreaking ceremony on June for the $30 billion new Istanbul airport that is slated to become one of the world’s biggest despite lingering environmental and funding problems that threaten the planned

Turkey and Iran will sign at least six new agreements when Iranian President Hasan Rouhani conducts his first visit to Turkey on June 9 with the goal of enhancing political, economic and cultural relations between the two neighbors.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ was rendered speechless on June 6, after facing a question comparing an earlier attack against him with a recent attack on a protester by a prime ministerial aide.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan never ceases to amaze me. Just as I was thinking he had set a new standard in damaging the economy by attacking the Central Bank, he raised the bar by announcing a vast debt amnesty.

Turkish President Abdullah Gül has expressed the need to urge for the adoption of a development policy that heeds harmony between the ecology and economy.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on the other hand, praised his government’s controversial environmental and urban planning policies on the occasion of World Environment Day.

Former Transport Minister Binali Yıldırım was appointed June 5 as an adviser to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) chair, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, daily Hürriyet has learned.

Yıldırım will advise the prime minister on issues regarding transportation, communication and infrastructure.

With less than a month for the announcement of presidential candidates, the two largest oppositional parties continued June 4 their consultative meetings with trade unions and civil society to find out “what kind of president the people prefer?”

Turkish Parliamentary Speaker Cemil Çiçek has returned a Republican People’s Party (CHP) motion demanding a parliamentary inquiry into Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in relation to a wave of corruption probes.