EghtesadOnline: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to concentrate powers in his office depend on formal talks that were to begin Monday between the ruling AK Party and a nationalist opposition party, which is leaning toward referring the controversial issue to a popular referendum.

EghtesadOnline: Turkey's ruling party has withdrawn for review a proposed bill allowing men accused of sexual abuse to avoid sentence, but a public uproar has persisted, with opposition parties and civil society groups calling for it to be canceled entirely.

EghtesadOnline: Ahmet Davutoglu, a one-time prime minister and chairman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party , announced he was resigning from the governing bloc and plans to form a new political movement.

EghtesadOnline: Turks voted on Sunday in presidential and parliamentary elections that pose the biggest ballot box challenge to Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted AK Party since they swept to power more than a decade and a half ago.