BAHÇELİ BROKERS HANDSHAKE BETWEEN RIVAL TRABZON MOBSTERS
MHP Chair Devlet Bahçeli brought together Sedat Şahin and Burhanettin Saral at the party's Ankara headquarters on Sept. 26, ending a feud of more than 20 years.
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VIDEO REVEALS LEGAL FEUD BETWEEN FORMER PRIME MINISTERS
Former Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım won a defamation lawsuit against his predecessor Ahmet Davutoğlu, pro-government columnist Abdülkadir Selvi revealed.
LAWYER ASSASSINATED IN FEUD BETWEEN DALTON AND CASPER GANGS
Serdar Öktem, a lawyer and a key defendant in the murder case of former Grey Wolves leader Sinan Ateş, was shot by masked assailants armed with long-barreled weapons in Istanbul traffic. Öktem died in hospital Oct. 6 from his injuries. Initial findings suggest the attack was carried out by the criminal group known as the Daltons.
ULTRANATIONALIST RIFT OVER COMMISSION DEEPENS
A political feud has erupted between Turkey’s two largest ultranationalist parties—the MHP and its breakaway rival the İYİ Party—over the establishment of a parliamentary commission tasked with preparing for the potential disarmament of the PKK.
BEHIND THE NARIN OUTCRY: FEUDALISM AND A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
For the past week, many Turks have been uneasily following the unfolding of the murder of an eight-year-old girl at a southeastern village and its tangle of feudal ties, political influence and an unholy conspiracy of silence that may well belong to an Almodovar film.