Within the framework of the government’s “Terror-Free Türkiye” project, it was announced that the delegation of the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission—established under Parliament—met with PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan on İmralı Island Prison on 24 November. In the statement released by the Office of the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM),
Pope Leo XIV, who will visit Türkiye between 27–30 November, carries two roles: one as the Head of the Vatican State, and the other as the Spiritual Leader of Catholic Christians. Ankara attaches importance to the fact that Pope Leo XIV is making his first official foreign trip to Türkiye and is pleased about it.
The indictment titled “Ekrem İmamoğlu Profit-Driven Criminal Organization” prepared by Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Akın Gürlek—released on 11 November—is poised to enter the history of political trials worldwide. Although part of the corruption allegations rely on witness statements filled with phrases like “it happened, I heard,” often supported only by secondary data such as mobile
Everyone is aware that the main obstacle to rapprochement between Türkiye and the European Union is political. For years it was Osman Kavala, Selahattin Demirtaş, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rulings—now the Ekrem İmamoğlu case has been added on top of all that, increasing the barriers to meeting the Copenhagen Political Criteria, which
Former Democratic People’s Party (HDP) co-leader Demirtaş was detained and arrested on November 4, 2016. November 3, marked nine years since his imprisonment began. On the same day, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected Turkey’s appeal—lodged on October 8—to have his case reviewed by the Grand Chamber. That decision makes the Court’s earlier