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MHP suggests joint opposition candidate

07 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli has suggested that the opposition should unite behind one candidate in the presidential election in August to stop the ruling party’s candidate.

“Turkey is going through very delicate times,” Bahçeli told daily Hürriyet in Parliament during the debate on the graft accusations against four former ministers. 

The nationalist leader also criticized TV commentators who "talk "as if Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was already elected president."

Opposition debating idea of joint candidate for presidency

06 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

In preparation for the run-up to a two-round presidential election scheduled for August, opposition parties have started to consider nominating a joint candidate.

The idea behind a joint candidate is to name the strongest possible competitor to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) candidate, who will most likely be Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The elections scheduled for August will be different to those of the past, as Turks will be electing their president through direct voting for the first time.

Turkey’s ruling party to dominate graft panel in Parliament

06 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey’s Parliament has elected to establish a single inquiry commission to investigate corruption allegations against four former ministers of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government, with the panel set to be dominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) itself.

The commission, which lawmakers in the 550-seat Parliament voted by a huge majority of 453-9 to establish after a tense session May 5 that lasted 16 hours, will decide whether the former ministers will be prosecuted.     

Ankara court grants stay of execution for YouTube ban

06 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

A Turkish court in Ankara has granted a stay of execution for a ban on YouTube following an appeal by the company’s lawyer, Gönenç Gürkaynak.

Access to YouTube was blocked March 27 by Turkey’s Telecommunications Authority (TİB) without being supported by a court decision, hours after recordings of a key security meeting on Syria were leaked online.

The decision by Ankara’s 4th Administrative Court paves the way for a lifting of the ban on the popular video-sharing website.

PM Erdoğan pitches his roadmap to presidency

05 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has delivered clear signals that its leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will run in Turkey’s first ever direct election for president in August.

A decision made in a five-hour long meeting of the AKP’s highest decision-making body, the Central Decision and Executive Council (MKYK), on May 2 is considered to be the clearest of these signals, with the party ultimately opting to maintain its three-term limit for its deputies.

D-Day arrives for graft debates at Turkey’s Parliament

05 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Parliament will gather today for a long-delayed session, during which summary of proceedings for four ex-ministers of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) facing graft charges will be debated.

The session comes after a one-and-a-half month delay due to the local elections held on March 30 and also a procedural flaw in the related motions.

Kamalak re-elected as Felicity Party leader

04 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Current chairman of Felicity (Saadet) Party Mustafa Kamalak was re-elected at the party's 5th regular Congress May 4. Kamalak got 656 votes while his rival Fatih Erbakan, the son of the late party chairman and iconic politician Necmettin Erbakan, had 212 votes.
 
“We neither approve of covering up corruption, nor approve of the parallel structure in the state. No one can partner us with their sins,” Kamalak said May 4, addressing the Congress.

Kamalak said their struggle was not for the Prime Ministry post, but seeking rights for workers and the poor.

HDP's democratic autonomy based on strong local administration

04 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Today's Zaman

Details of a democratic autonomy project offered by pro-Kurdish politicians to settle the Kurdish issue are now being clarified, with politicians and academics affiliated with the People's Democracy Party (HDP) noting that the canton model emerging in the Kurdish region of Rojava in the north of Syria could be used as a model for Turkey as well.
 

'Erdoğan will become 'dictator' with de facto presidential system'

04 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Today's Zaman

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has, for the most part, decided on its strategy for the presidential election in August and will seek a plan to switch to a de facto presidential or semi-presidential system, which opposition parties have slammed as a move that will pave the way for dictatorship.
 
“This would lead to a de facto dictatorship,” Faruk Bal, deputy chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), told Today's Zaman, noting that as per the Constitution, presidents are not accountable for their acts before the law.

Turkish press certified 'not free'

04 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Al-Monitor

On May 1, Freedom House published its 2014 rankings, in which Turkish press freedom regressed from the "partly free" to the "not free" category. With the release coming just two days before World Press Freedom Day, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) could not ignore the report's findings, which opened up a Pandora’s box of reaction from the government and its supporters.

Turkey's opposition needs youth to challenge AKP

02 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Al-Monitor

Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has consistently failed to dispel the impression of a party in a state of total disarray with little chance of holding power. Its lackluster results in the March 30 local elections, especially in the large metropolitan areas and at a time when the ruling party was the target of a graft probe, threw it further into the doldrums.

Turkish PM Erdoğan hints at presidential run, as ruling AKP maintains electoral decisions

02 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to maintain a three-term limit for its deputies, the clearest signal yet that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan will run for the presidency in an August election, the party said on May 2.

There has been speculation the AKP would change its rules to enable Erdoğan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, to stay on as prime minister for a fourth term and finish off a power struggle with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen he accuses of seeking to topple him.

Prosecutor who summoned Turkish main opposition leader says matter is being ‘exaggerated’

02 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

The prosecutor who sparked controversy by sending a summons “by mistake” to the main opposition leader, Republican People’s Party (CHP) head Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said the matter had been “exaggerated." In an extensive written statement released on May 2, he also confirmed that the plaintiff was the Turkish prime minister’s son, Bilal Erdoğan.

President can't seem to act independently of gov't, CHP leader says

02 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Todays Zaman

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Friday that Turkey should be discussing what the next president's role will be and what sort of qualifications he should have, instead of focusing on the possible candidacy of two political figures as the presidential election scheduled for Aug. 10 approaches.

At a meeting with representatives of the international media, Kılıçdaroğlu reviewed recent political developments in Turkey.

Turkish PM hints at presidential run, as ruling AKP maintains decisions

02 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has decided to maintain a three-term limit for its deputies, the clearest signal yet that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan will run for the presidency in an August election, the party said on May 2.

There has been speculation the AKP would change its rules to enable Erdoğan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade, to stay on as prime minister for a fourth term and finish off a power struggle with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen he accuses of seeking to topple him.

Turkish government scared of workers: Main opposition leader

01 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hurriyet Daily News

The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is scared of workers, Turkey’s main opposition leader has said, condemning the police crackdown on protesters wanting to celebrate May Day at Taksim Square.

“The government is scared of the worker. I condemn this unfair intervention that is made on May Day, Labor Day,” main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kiliçdarpglu said.

Complaint on ‘insult’ charges against main opposition leader filed by PM Erdoğan’s son

01 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Hürriyet Daily News

The complaint that led to the prosecution of Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on insult charges was filed by Bilal Erdoğan, the son of the Turkish prime minister, daily Hürriyet reported on April 30.

The investigation was publically revealed after Kılıçdaroğlu was asked to testify in a case on April 30, despite being legally immune from prosecution as a parliamentary deputy.

Erdoğan silent about PKK attacks for sake of presidential elections

01 Mayo 2014
Turquía
Fuente: 
Todays Zaman

The government chooses to remain silent about recent attacks by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) for fear that the settlement process might be destroyed and to be able to get support in the upcoming presidential election from voters of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), analysts have said.  

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