Secularism in Turkey

İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener has vowed to continue her fight unshakably to promote women's right in every field of life.

"I will never quit my struggle even if death awaits me at the very end and I am left alone. This is the promise of a Muslim Turkish woman," Akşener told her parliamentary group on March 10 as she devoted her weekly address to International Women's Day.

A nationwide debate has been sparked over Istanbul Metropolitan Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu's Twitter post in which he tagged İYİ (Good) Party Chair Meral Akşener and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan while marking International Women's Day.

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on March 6 criticized an investigation opened against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) by the Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's office.

The İYİ (Good) Party will not automatically vote in favor of the removal of the immunities of the parliament members from the ranks of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), İYİ Party Chairwoman Meral Akşener has said, stressing that her party would advocate the truth and not support a political show.

Teoman Sancar, a member of the parliament from the ranks of the Republican People's Party (CHP), has resigned from his party following the resignation of three lawmakers in the past weeks.

A majority of the Turkish population believes that Turkey needs a new constitution, but it must be written within a suitable political climate, the head of the main opposition party has said, in reaction to the government's calls for the political parties to join their efforts to renew the charter.

The struggle against terror is not merely killing terror group members, but also other means of fighting should be carried out in this process, the main opposition party leader has said, questioning the government's way of fighting against the illegal PKK group.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Merak Akşener on Feb. 17 criticized the government for not declaring national mourning over illegal PKK's killing of 13 Turkish citizens in northern Iraq, while asking the reason for not being able to successfully rescue the abducted security personnel.

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the chairman of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has called on the EU to revive Turkey's long-stalled full membership process while expressing his regret to observe that Turkey was only mentioned in the context of the foreign policy matters in Brussels.

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener on Feb. 9 warned the government over Turkey's deteriorating economy while blaming President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for ignoring this reality.