Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan continues his series of renouncing his actions and rules. Let us list the first ones that come to mind. The supremacy of ECHR rulings according to Article 90 of the Constitution, has come up for discussion again with the recent judicial crisis. Exiting the İstanbul Convention against violence against women. The
Turkish National Defence Minister Yaşar Güler said Türkiye is considering to buy 40 Eurofighter jets ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s tense Germany visit, raising number of questions. “We want to buy the Eurofighter. It is a very effective aircraft. These planes are related to the UK, Germany and Spain. Both the UK and Spain
Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee decided to postpone the deliberations on Sweden’s Accession Protocol to NATO, stating that they needed more information from Sweden about its commitments at the first meeting after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the protocol for the parliamentary approval. The Foreign Affairs Committee on November 16 voted to adjourn the meeting
The extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League convened on the Gaza Crisis held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on November 11th. In the harsh final declaration, Muslim-majority countries raised their voices in unison against Israel’s aggression against Palestinians. The leaders of 58 countries, claiming to represent more than 2 billion
Turkish Republic is 100 years old on October 29, 2023celebrated its 100th birthday. A hundred years ago Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the leader of the Turkish War of Independence against Western occupying powers and their native collaborators declared the regime of the new Türkiye a republic, also marking the end of the six-century-long Ottoman rule. Türkiye
Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan said on October 25 that he regards the Palestinian Hamas organization “not as a terrorist organization, but as a liberation group”. Devoting almost the entire parliamentary group speach to Gaza, Erdoğan said: “You cannot find any other country that bombs cities day and night with its warplanes, that sets buildings and
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan surprized Turkish public with his decision to sign the NATO accession protocol of Sweden while there was both international and domestic expectation that he would make a move about Gaza Crisis On October 23, the Communications Directorate announced that the President had signed Sweden’s accession protocol to NATO and sent
It is reported that Türkiye asked Hamas political representatives to leave the country on October 7, the day they launched an attack on Israel. Sources who asked not to be named confirmed YetkinReport the report by journalist Fehim Taştekin in Al Monitor, despite another Turkish source told Times of Israel that the report was “untrue”.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed Sweden’s NATO accession protocol and referred it to the Turkish Grand National Assembly on October 23. “The Protocol on Sweden’s Accession to NATO was signed by our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 23, 2023 and sent to the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye,” the Presidential Directorate of Communication
Two farmers living in the Thrace region, the European quarter of Türkiye, namely, Halis Erkorkmaz and Burak Tunçkol, have found a great way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Republic as best they can. With a tractor and a plow, they wrote “The Republic is 100 Years Old” on the field. The farmers told