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Track Turkey’s executive presidency bill through parliament
Follow as MPs vote on each clause of proposals to grant President Erdoğan sweeping executive powers
Wednesday 11 January 2017
Amid surveillance, Turkish MPs debate more powers for Erdoğan
Voter intimidation and opposition excitement dominate first full day of parliament debate on executive presidency system
Tuesday 10 January 2017
Will the MHP back Erdoğan’s executive presidency?
Nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli is trying to force through a reform unpopular with his party’s grassroots
Monday 9 January 2017
Turkey’s massive security problem is now international
More than 500 people have died in terror attacks in Turkey since last June. Now a Russian ambassador has joined them
Tuesday 20 December 2016
Erdoğan the impartial
Unusually, Turkey’s president uses the ceremonial trappings of his office to urge consensus
Tuesday 22 November 2016
HDP operation: which MPs have been arrested?
Live spreadsheet listing the status of MPs from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) following Friday morning's wave of arrests
Friday 4 November 2016
‘Tayyip Erdoğan is finished’
A newspaper headline about the future Turkish president that got it so, so wrong
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Warrants, arrests for Cumhuriyet’s editor and board
Turkey's most consistent opposition newspaper appears to be on the verge of being seized
Monday 31 October 2016
Turkey centralises 28 mostly Kurdish local authorities
An interactive map of the councils seized by Turkish authorities under state of emergency powers
Monday 19 September 2016
An interior minister bows out
Efkan Ala's departure illustrates the direction in which power flows within Turkey's cabinet
Thursday 1 September 2016