At the CHP’s parliamentary group meeting, Kılıçdaroğlu directed accusations at the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), claiming that“this is the government that was involved in the biggest corruption cases in Turkey.”

Turkey is ending 2010 amidst debates on bilingualism and autonomy for Kurds. It has been a year during which Turkey’s long-standing Kurdish problem, with its various aspects, continued to be discussed, although a government initiative to resolve the problem seems to have slowed down.

The Kimse Yok Mu aid organization provided assistance to a woman in Sivas who had re-married her ex-husband, whom she’d divorced due to irreconcilable differences, after the man became paralyzed.

In responding to criticism of the draft proposal by the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) that demands autonomy for Kurds, the leader of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, said:“You want the weapons silenced.

Let’s criticize Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for some of his policies but at the same time let’s try to see whether there is any political party other than his that will force him to adopt more liberal behavior.

During the latest hearing at the Sledgehammer coup trial, retired Gen.Çetin Doğan, the former head of the 1st Army, said if a crime had been committed in relation to the Sledgehammer case then he is guilty but his colleagues, who are also on trial, are innocent. Is Doğan’s claim plausible?

Amid bilingualism and autonomy debates, President Abdullah Gül is travelling to the southeastern province of Diyarbakır today where he is expected to give important messages for the solution of the long-standing Kurdish problem.

Eighteen children from the Social Services and Child Protection Agency’s Mersin branch have begun taking music lessons as part of an agency project named“Bridge of Arts from Mersin to Vienna.”

I have an observation. I am not sure whether it is true or not, but I think interest in Christmas trees this year is more than in past years. What do you think has changed?

In advanced democracies where there is freedom of expression and thought, it is possible to debate issues like the Kurds’ demand for autonomy, as long as such issues include no violence.