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Abdülkadir Selvi

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Is the crisis with Russia being overcome?

30 March 2016, Wednesday

November 24, 2015, the date on which the Russian plane was downed, became a turning point in terms of Turkish-Russian ties. Yet the most recent years were the brightest in the history of the two countries' relations. Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Antalya for the G20 summit held on November 15-16, only a week before the downing of the plane. One of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's most productive meetings within the scope of G20 was with Putin. Ever since the downing of the Russian plane,

What was discussed over breakfast with the president?

28 March 2016, Monday

When the Reconciliation Commission in Parliament ended, the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) accelerated its constitution work. We were in Jordan with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu over the weekend. Before going to Jordan, the prime minister convened with AK Party members working on the new constitution. Davutoğlu announced that the new constitution would soon be written. “We are planning to present the new constitution to the Parliament by the end of April,” he said. In the meeting Pre

A new collective terror concept

22 March 2016, Tuesday

Information on the PKK stationing 57 armed PKK militants in Diyarbakır's Bağlar town has been received. This intelligence information is confirmed by different resources. According to intelligence information, these armed terrorists are preparing for a move similar to that in Sur. Thorough research is being conducted. The hiding places of terrorists are being identified. A raid-like attack is planned by the police before the terrorists take action. Forces are working carefully so that the civili

Bayık announces PKK's new mission

16 March 2016, Wednesday

Cemil Bayık explained the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) suicide bombing acts: “We want to oust [President Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan.” And how will they oust him? Suicide bombers blowing themselves up in order to kill innocent people. The PKK had the “child murderer” label. They killed 4-month-old baby Hamza in the Dargeçit town of southeastern Mardin province. The PKK is now an organization that kills unborn babies. Badly injured Songül Bektaş's 6.5-month-old unborn baby could not survive. Bayık

What happened in Dağlıca, when is the Mosul operation?

08 March 2016, Tuesday

It is a sunny day in Ankara. Budget discussions are taking place at Parliament. We conversed in the Parliament garden with Milliyet newspaper's Ankara representative, Serpil Çevikcan, and observed the budget discussions. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) members are using a very deliberate language. HDP Group Vice Chairman İdris Baluken took great care to make sure his statements, selected carefully to show Turkey as a war criminal in the future, were recorded in the Parliamentary minutes. Th

An Africa within Africa

02 March 2016, Wednesday

We are in Ghana, on the second leg of our visit to Africa with the President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.Ghana is a nation we are familiar with. Ghanaian football players chase the ball in our leagues, particularly for Fenerbahçe Football Club.We arrived in Ghana after a 45-minute flight from Ivory Coast.It was evening and as we disembarked from the plane, the weather was so hot and humid that our glasses fogged up.But was it the same when we visited with our 11th president, Abdullah Gül, five years a

What is Syria's Plan B?

25 February 2016, Thursday

The USA and Russia negotiated on the cease-fire in Syria. The US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the success of the cease-fire that will come into effect on February 27 will be obvious within a few days. Kerry did not neglect to speak softly, but carry a big stick. He said if the cease-fire fails Plan B will be activated. Plan B means Syria's division. Actually, it has already been divided into three parts. In Damascus, a Nusayri state, in Northern Syria, Kurdish administration and in t

The story of that night between Turkey and the US

22 February 2016, Monday

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US President Barack Obama met twice in one month. The two leaders spoke after the Sultanahmet attack on January 20 and after the suicide bombing in Ankara on February 19. Obama and Erdoğan are going to meet at the Nuclear Security Summit, which will be held in Washington between March 30 and April 1. If Obama is available, the two leaders are going to attend the opening of the US-Islam Culture Center in Maryland together. Hence the two leaders will have met thr

The AK Party's Plan B

18 February 2016, Thursday

Plan A was that the Turkish Grand National Assembly's Constitutional Reconciliation Commission would formulate the new Constitution. The commission named “Reconciliation” was dissolved, since it could not reconcile. If plan A's political life ends, plan B will start. What will happen? The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) will present to the Parliament speaker the constitutional draft that it prepared. Actually, it was what the AK Party should do at first. Two years have gone to waste b

Are we going to war in Syria?

17 February 2016, Wednesday

Turkey has been pondering the answer to this question for a while. In his speech in Ukraine the day before yesterday, and in the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) group meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu answered this question: “If there is a threat of war in Syria, Turkey will never be the one to cause it; we have been keeping Turkey out of the war for five years. In order to be away from the war, namely to avoid the security problems just next to it, we have been taking s