İbrahim Kalın, President Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesperson and chief security and foreign policy advisor, has signaled revision on Turkey’s foreign policy. Such revision seems to be focused on putting relations with the U.S. administration under Joe Biden into the track.So remarks by Kalın during a March 8 interview with Bloomberg on a wide range of issues
Canan Güllü, a prominent Turkish women rights activist, has been granted the “Women of Courage” by the Department of State of the U.S. “Canan has been a steadfast champion of gender equality, working to promote women’s participation in governance, labor force, and education,” the U.S. State Department said in a March 7 social media post
President Tayyip Erdoğan’s expectation from U.S. President Joe Biden is not limited to a phone call as he actually wants to go back to the good old days when he was hosted by Donald Trump and make statements starting with “My friend Biden,” as if there weren’t any problems between the two countries. He wants
At least 11 Turkish soldiers, including a lieutenant general, were killed in a helicopter crash on March 4 in Southeastern Turkey, according to Defense Ministry. Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was the commander of the Turkish 8th Army Corps based in the Eastern city of Elazığ. Two soldiers were injured in the crash that occurred due
The Human Rights Action Plan of the Turkish government would be meaningful if President Tayyip Erdoğan had presented it as an administrative reform in the judiciary. Actually, Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül explained the real target of the package, announced on March 2, by saying that “The most important thing for me is secure judiciary” Whether
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the government’s Human Rights Action Plan, which was prepared within the scope of a promised judicial reform package. The plan, which includes nine objectives, 50 targets and 393 activities, focuses heavily on legislative regulations, pledges improvements in a broad range of fields from freedom of expression to arrest procedures.
Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül is scheduled to announce the new Human Rights Action Plan of the government on March 2 at the presidential palace. President Tayyip Erdogan will also attend the “presentation ceremony,” an event that organizations such as the Human Rights Association (İHD) or the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) are not