Turkey’s parliament will next week start a fortnight of debates on a controversial new constitution aimed at expanding the powers of the presidency under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said on Saturday. The new constitution, which will replace the basic law drawn up in the wake of Turkey’s 1980 military ...
The Turkish Armed Forces have eliminated 21 terrorists and destroyed 12 targets of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) takfiri group over the past 24 hours as part of the Euphrates Shield operation in northern Syria, the Turkish General Staff said. On August 24, the Turkish ...