Veysi Kaynak

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on April 24 blasted a call by the Monitoring Committee of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) for the postponement of Turkey's upcoming early elections on June 24.

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced the much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle on July 19, changing four of his five deputy premiers while keeping the foreign team in place and introducing six new names. 

A headline in the July 5 edition of daily Hürriyet drew my attention.

Let's go back to the beginning of the week. There had been incidents in Istanbul and Ankara involving Syrian refugees. The atmosphere was very tense.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has made a call for public tolerance following clashes between different ethnic groups in Ankara's Yenimahalle district.

Turkey will retaliate against any cross-border gunfire from the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria and will not remain silent in the face of anti-Turkey activities by terrorist groups abroad, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on June 29.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed nearly half of the Justice and Development Party's (AKP) executive management to include members of the youth organizations and representatives from business circles during a congress in which he was re-elected as chairman.  

Turkey's Interior Ministry has ended the activities of four foreign nongovernmental organizations operating in Turkey on the grounds of "national security," including the United States-based Mercy Corps, a Turkish official told the Hürriyet Daily News on condition of anonymity. 

Three people who were transferred to Turkey after a suspected gas attack in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib killed scores of people on April 4 have died, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has said, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak has claimed that his remarks on the possibility of a new wave of migrants coming from Iran to Turkey have been misinterpreted, responding to a statement from Tehran that had described them as  "incorrect."

A fresh migration wave with three million migrants is currently in the phase of mobilization from Iran to Turkey, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said March 26.