Speaking at his ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) provincial congress in Ankara on Feb. 17, President Tayyip Erdoğan named main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu “shameless” and “disgraced bloke.” Erdoğan insulted the Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader because he raised questions on why 13 Turkish security officials and soldiers, who were kidnapped by the PKK,
Last week Turkey’s social media was full of jokes about Turkey’s space program with the mission to the moon. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan revealed a 10-year space program on Feb. 9, which includes plans such as sending Turkish astronauts to the moon. Just as pictures of a mustached Elon Musk posing as Justice and
Ahmet Davutoğlu, the leader of the Future Party (GP), criticized President Tayyip Erdoğan for making serious mistakes in the Gara operation, during which the outlawed PKK killed 13 Turkish citizens it held hostage. A strike operation and a hostage rescue operation were mixed, Davutoğlu told YetkinReport in an interview, adding that the murdered 13 citizens
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced on Feb. 14 that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed 13 unarmed Turkish citizens, triggering a big pain in the country. Then we learned that the victims were the citizens –soldiers, policemen and intelligence members – who were abducted by the PKK between 2015 and 2017 and held
As a Turkey struggling against increasing unemployment and cost of living started discussing how to name a future astronaut after President Tayyip Erdoğan called on the nation to “look at the space,” there was a meeting under the name of co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean in Athens. Greece hosted the “Philia Forum”, the “Friendship Forum”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning some of the foreign reactions to the heavy-handed approach of the Turkish government in reaction to the protests at Boğaziçi University. It saddens me to see that the 150 years old reputation of our Foreign Ministry is being ruined. The epicenter of the country’s foreign relations
It seems that the Turkish Presidency has finally accepted that relations with the U.S. are heading towards the wall. President Tayyip Erdoğan has finally realized that things cannot be passed over with Joe Biden’s administration with the help of diplomacy carried out with Donald Trump with the problem with Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 air
A total of 54 members of the U.S. Senate penned on Feb. 9 a vitriolic letter about Turkey to new President Joe Biden. At first glance, the letter looks like the “respect for human rights” letters previously written by senators to former U.S. presidents. In the letter, the senators ask the president of the United
Human rights issues have always been a difficult subject for Turkish diplomats. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the field of human rights is not considered as an area of expertise like NATO/arms control questions or matters pertaining to Cyprus/Greece. The reason for this is that one would often come across human rights questions at
Turkish main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has responded to the “new constitution” suggestion by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, saying that Turkey really needs a new charter but the new offer raises concerns about “strengthening authoritarianism in the country, not democracy.” “Dictators do not want a democratic constitution based on human rights,”