Süleyman Soylu

The repulse of 2016 coup attempt in Turkey is "a common source of pride" for the nation, the country's president said on July 15, marking the fifth anniversary of the defeated coup.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has criticized a Constitutional Court decision ruling that the rights of former Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu have been violated.

"How is terrorist propaganda considered a violation of rights?" the MHP leader said on July 6, addressing his lawmakers in parliament.

Prior to the NATO summit, a high-level delegation from Turkey will visit Libya upon the instruction of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to an official statement on June 11. 

Turkish parliament speaker Mustafa Şentop submitted a request in writing to the Interior Ministry on May 27 for the identity disclosure of a lawmaker allegedly receiving a sizable monthly paycheque from an organized crime leader, according to daily Milliyet.

It's impossible to write a new constitution as suggested by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan under current political and economic conditions, the head of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has said, blaming the government for the mismanagement of the country.

A prosecutor in Ankara has issued an arrest warrant for Sedat Peker, a fugitive criminal network leader who has been targeting Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu by making accusations and extraordinary claims against him from the United Arab Emirates.

President and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has voiced his ultimate support to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, who has come under fire by a mafia leader in a series of videos, stressing that the real target is Turkey's success in fighting terrorism and bringing down criminal networks.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli on May 25 vowed support to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and urged for taking judicial action against the ringleader, Sedat Peker.

Claims voiced by a ringleader who is now based abroad are part of an ongoing operation against Turkey and its rise in the region, the interior minister has said, maintaining that he became the subject of such an attack because of his success in the fight against terrorism and organized crime.

Sliding in opinion polls amid a severe economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey is looking unusually embattled these days. And now his administration has been hit by a roiling corruption scandal that some say has a fin de siècle aura about it.