by Samir Salha | Jan 11, 2014 | Opinion
The arrests that took place on December 17 in Turkey have been described by leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) as a carefully planned provocation orchestrated by the Fethullah Gülen group in a bid to oust the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 10, 2014 | World
Ankara, Reuters—One of Turkey’s most senior legal figures warned Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday that efforts to tighten its grip on the judiciary would breach the constitution, deepening a crisis triggered by...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 7, 2014 | World
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Around 350 police officers have been removed from their posts in the Turkish capital of Ankara, Turkey’s state-run Andalou news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the private Dogan news agency, the dismissed officers have been...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Dec 28, 2013 | Opinion
We had expected that it would be Syria’s president who would fall, but it seems that the storm will topple Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who today finds himself up to his ears in trouble. Erdoğan has recently been verbally attacking...
by Thair Abbas | Dec 24, 2013 | World
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Leading members of the US-based cleric Fethullah Gülen’s group fear reprisals from Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following the anti-corruption campaign launched by Turkish police and public prosecutors. In a telephone call to...
