The fund embezzlement scandal has become part of an internal power struggle that will determine the regime’s future direction. The source of the leaks is clearly within the People’s Alliance. Consequently, neither the declarations that they will “not accept this operation” nor the attempts to portray the incident as an isolated case and cover it up will be enough to extinguish this fire.
The AKP does not consider parliamentary inquiry motions into the fund profiteering scandal necessary. While Erdoğan and his officials seek to frame the crisis around individuals, attempts are being made to conceal the Palace regime’s responsibility through the judiciary.
Any approach that confines the fund issue to the criminal liability of individuals, whilst failing to address the political accountability of those in power, is deliberate and flawed.
Although supporters are trying to portray the fund scandal as an isolated incident, every detail points back to the AKP. Knowing that it will never hold together once uncovered, the regime wants to force everyone to swear an oath of silence.
The report by the Children’s Rights Centre of the Association for Ideas and Arts (FİSA) revealed that 239 children lost their lives due to preventable causes during the summer months. The report noted that 225 children died in areas where the state had failed to fulfil its obligation to prevent violations of the right to life
Mustafa Bildircin The amounts of public losses identified and ruled upon during audits of public authorities with general and special budgets have been revealed. The amount of public loss, disclosed in the General Compli...
The social welfare spending, criticised by the opposition on the grounds that it is “creating a culture of charity”, has caused the general administration sector’s expenditure pool to overflow. It has also been revealed that social welfare spending in 2025 increased by 40 per cent compared to 2024, reaching 6.4 trillion TL
Whilst discourses on ‘the family’, ‘the protection of children’ and ‘public morality’ have become common tools for policies targeting LGBTI+ people in various countries around the world, repression in Turkey is intensifying with new crackdowns. Rights advocates, meanwhile, have come together under the name ‘We Want Freedom’ Campaign Group
The regime, unable to respond to the citizens’ pressing demands, seeks a solution in manipulating the agenda. Whilst the people wish to make it known that they are struggling to make ends meet, the political establishment is debating issues that suit the Palace’s agenda.
Every development, from Mansur Yavaş’s stance to the transfers at the municipality, highlights the necessity of a complete rejection of the regime. Genuine change comes not merely from saying ‘We will win’, but also from stepping outside the game set up by the Palace and uniting the people’s genuine demands under a common struggle.
Having reached the end of its first phase with the dissolution of the PKK and the laying down of arms, the process is being discussed more in terms of regional and domestic political calculations than a democratic solution. Erdoğan’s emphasis that ‘it is impossible to time it’ reinforces the likelihood that the process will be linked to the elections, whilst rhetoric from the Kurdish movement is also fuelling the debate.
The number of people who lost their lives after a passenger ship carrying 267 people capsized and sank off the coast of Kyrenia has risen to 8. While search operations for the 20 missing people continue, question marks over how the disaster occurred are growing.
HTS Foreign Minister Shaybani and Mossad Director Gofman met in Jordan to discuss Syria, where Turkey and Israel are at odds. Discussions took place on setting up a ‘special operations room’ in Jordan under US mediation.
As the US redesigns the Middle East, Ankara is ready for the new tasks assigned to it. Foreign policy experts point out that there is a desire to transform Turkey into a Middle Eastern regime that is exempt from criticism regarding human rights and democracy.
There are those who, when criticism arises that this process could be exploited by those in power for their own interests—and when society voices legitimate concerns along these lines—go so far as to dismiss such concerns as an injustice done to ‘Mr Erdoğan and Mr Bahçeli’! Is that really the case? The Erdoğans and the Bahçelis (with America’s support too) have been promising freedom, peace and democracy to our people, whom they have been oppressing for years through all manner of hardships – and yet are we the ones doing them an injustice…
The number of children whose needs cannot be met by their families has reached 193,601. As of June 2026, it was established that 11.2 million households were living in extreme poverty, whilst 16,000 households were living in uninhabitable conditions. According to data shared by the Ministry of Family and Social Services, it emerged that 1.8 million households were unable to pay their electricity bills and 606,800 households were unable to pay their natural gas bills without social assistance.
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