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Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
"U.S stance on Turkey's AKP neutral official says U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matt Bryza has said that there was no hidden meaning or message in the United States' point of view about the closure case against Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)." More: U.S stance on Turkey's AKP neutral official says
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Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Turkey's Political Opposition Blasts Ruling AKP May 14th, 2008 by Fred Stopsky · No Comments Devlet Bahceli, leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party(MHP), claimed the ruling Justice and Developmnt Party(AKP) led by Prime Minister Erdogan, is using the attempt by the prosecutor’s office to close it down as a strategy of placing itself as a victim rather than confronting real issues that...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Officials from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) yesterday said the party still needs time to finalize the “roadmap” it will implement in the closure case against it. Prime Minister Recep
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | yesterday
The AKP government was elected with a large share of the vote, said British Foreign Secretary David Milliband, defending Prime Minister Recep
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Turkey's tense situation raises EU's concerns Recent threats made against the AKP government indicate that Turkey's political turmoil has intensified since 2007, writes Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform in an April blog post....
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Euractive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recent threats made against the AKP government indicate that Turkey's political turmoil has intensified since 2007, writes Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform in an April blog post.
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Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Five scenarios over the AKP's closure case Ruşen ÇAKIR Turkish businessmen urge gov't to focus on economy Mehmet Yilmaz: Research on the "Average Turk" I received the results of research conducted by Associate Professor Dr Hakan Yilmaz from Bosporus University...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Rusen ÇAKIRThe wext few days after the closure case filed against the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) were full of excitement and heat. For a while, everyone waited for the AKP to go for constitutional changes in order to make political party closures difficult. But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said they will not do so, and all they would was to submit...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In the topsy turvy world of Turkish politics, the closure case faced by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is likely to result in new faces replacing old ones no matter if the party is
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 : On May 9, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) convened and completed the seventh review of its standby arrangement with Turkey, which was given final approval on May 11, 2005. The Letter of Intent for the review dated April 28 reveals that the AKP (Justice and Development Party), which heads the Turkish government, is preparing new attacks on the...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Unfortunately Tuncay Özkan preferred money to his right to criticize and sold out the KanalTürk Channel to the Koza group – a group which has been supportive of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and which is believed to have if not formal, some sort of “heartfelt” connections with the Fethullah Gülen brotherhood.What's bad in that? Özkan established a TV channel which...
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A new chapter in the relations between the Turkish press and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) opened Monday with the acquisition of the Kanaltürk channel and radio station by the
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Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to be shut down as a way to bury the party's past, said the leader of the country's ultra-right party
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
After his wife’s filing of a legal complaint in 2006, the former AKP MP Halil Urun could not be prosecuted due to his parliamentary immunity. When he failed to get re-elected in July 22, 2007 elections, he was charged for ... May 13, 2008, 6:46 pm
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Turkish Digest (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
"Turkish AKP's new alcohol law raises questions marks The new law to overhaul tobacco and alcoholic beverages usage drew fierce criticism from sector representatives, and is seen as another negative factor in the Islamist-rooted AKP's record of conservative arrangements." More: Turkish AKP's new alcohol law raises questions marks
